Executive director for Rural and Farmworkers Development, Billy Claasen, at the property where the attack took place. (Screenshot)
While Western Cape police are hunting down the men who ransacked a farm house in Porterville and stabbed a farm manager multiple times, the provincial health department is probing why no doctor was available when the bloodied 65-year-old victim was brought in.
Gerhard Nel died of his injuries.
He was rushed to the Lapa Munnik Hospital just after 01:00 on 1 July after five men forcefully entered the home he shared with his wife, 63-year-old Barbara, at the Tevrede farm.
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