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News - South Africa: Elderly couple stabbed to death - police
Date Posted: Thursday 14-Aug-2008An elderly couple was stabbed and beaten to death on their smallholding near Swartberg in KwaZulu-Natal on Friday night, police said.
Superintendent Zandra Hechter said Raymond and Yvonne Fitch, both in their late 70s, were found by a family member on Saturday morning.
The family member was alerted by a worker who noticed that a door and windows of the house had been broken.
The couple had been stabbed and beaten, Hechter said.
The house was ransacked and a Mercedes Benz stolen, which was later recovered near Matatiele.
Police were still trying to ascertain what was taken from the house.
Swartberg is near Kokstad. - Sapa
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