Farm Murders: Police Complicity in Farm Crime

[Here is a tiny titbit, but there is much more to come, concerning Farm Murders and what I was told directly by someone senior in one of the few remaining Commando Units.

The Commando units have been in existence for over a century and they are volunteer groups who protect the rural areas.

The man I spoke to spoke from personal experience of things he had seen and operations he had been on.

He told me that on one occasion they discovered that goods which were stolen were driven away in a Police van! Police were involved in the crime.

On another occasion, a farmer's sheep were going missing. They discovered that the sheep were having their throats slit and then the criminals would arrange for an ambulance - yes and AMBULANCE to come and pick up the sheep. They'd load the dead sheep in the ambulance and then with sirens blaring (so that they can't be stopped at roadblocks!) they would drive away with the stolen sheep!!

But here's one of the weirdest stories I heard, and I could not imagine what hideous game this one was about. On one occasion, a Commando intercepted a hearse with a coffin and a mourning wife. When they looked inside, the woman was weeping loudly. They decided to ask if the coffin could be opened. The woman screamed and wept and said that the body of her deceased husband was inside and that under no circumstances would she allow it. She flung herself over the coffin and would not let them open it. But they decided to anyway. So they pulled her off and opened the coffin to find inside it AK47's! Stacks of them!

Now this bothers me... my informant did not elaborate more on who was ordering the AK47's or where they were going, etc. Due to other interruptions this aspect of the conversation was never properly completed. But who is smuggling arms inside this country and why? Are these for gangs?

He told me in his area people could buy AK47's with 50 rounds of ammo for R1,000 ($143). Jan]