He says a few things the police noticed about most farm murder incidents is that the assailants want to rob farm owners of their valuables such as vehicles and firearms. He adds that the police have not established whether these attackers might be former farm workers.

 This after he announced that a man was arrested after he allegedly killed an emerging farmer in the Mafube Local Municipality, which includes Frankfort, on Thursday after he was discovered with his throat slit. Sempe and the MEC for Police, Roads, and Transport handed over 48 new vehicles on Friday to different rural safety policing clusters with the hope of combating farm murders.

According to Sempe during a media briefing at Glen Agricultural College outside Bloemfontein, the cattle that were stolen were later recovered and a suspect was arrested with the help of a shepherd on that farm.

Sempe says the police are working hard to ensure that there are effective and efficient policing in those areas. MEC Sam Mashinini lauded the relationship between stakeholders, which includes residents in rural areas and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA). This after Sempe, on Friday, announced that significant arrests had been made in a short space of time with the assistance of these stakeholders.

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