Police are looking for information on the murder of a man whose mutilated body was discovered on a smallholding.
|||Police are looking for information to aid their investigations into the murder of a man believed to be in his late 20s or early 30s, whose badly mutilated body was discovered on a smallholding just outside the city.
The body was found on a smallholding in Tweefontein.
One arm had been severed at the shoulder and cut in two.
Dogs had begun feeding on the body.
The discovery was made by a farmworker, who alerted the police.
The man also had severe head injuries which suggested he had been struck repeatedly with a sharp object. The lack of blood at the scene suggested he might have not been murdered on the smallholding.
Police spokeswoman Captain Marissa van der Merwe said: “It does not look like this was the primary crime spot. It looks like (the man) was killed somewhere and then dumped here.”
Van der Merwe said police could not find anything else at the scene, but were investigating.
The man has not yet been identified, but Van der Merwe said police would run his prints through the system to see if they could identify him.
The smallholding on which the body was found is owned by Kobus Scheepers.
Scheepers is to appear in court in an unrelated case involving possession of unlicensed firearms.
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