Farmer's reign of terror

INTIMIDATION: RESIDENTS MURDERED, HOUSES TORCHED AND LIVESTOCK POISONED, SHOT

- Sipho Mabena

RUINS. The Mahlangu home was set alight last year and a family member slain. ATTACKED. One of the rooms that was set alight while January Madisa and his family were sleeping. REDUCED TO RUBBLE. The Tlou family's home was among those targeted. FLED. Mthandeni Sibanyoni is living in Waterval after his home was also set alight.

Families living on Waterval Farm in Dithabeng, in Mpumalanga's Thembisile Hani municipality claim their ancestral homes have become a place of terror.

This after two residents were murdered and several houses torched, with some families forced to flee the land they have occupied for generations in fear of their lives.