Anger is spreading in South Africa after white farmers killed patriots and made them pig food

The New York Times reports that the shocking news that white farmers killed two women and fed their corpses to pigs has sparked debate about some of South Africa's most complex issues, such as apartheid, gender-based violence and property ownership. fields.

A report written by the head of the American newspaper's office in Johannesburg, John Eligon, said that two black women who entered a farm owned by whites to look for food that was thrown away several weeks ago, never returned.

The owner of the farm and two of his employees are accused of shooting and killing the two women and then throwing their bodies in the pigsty, where the police say they found the bodies decomposed and partially eaten by the pigs.

The incident has sparked outrage in Limpopo province northeast of Johannesburg and sparked debate on a number of issues in South Africa, such as race and ethnicity, status-based violence and land ownership between white farmers and their neighbours. , black nationalists.

Two women who were killed and their corpses eaten by pigs, Maria Makgatho (age 44) and Lokadia Ndlovu (age 35), entered the farm looking for food in mid-August after a milk company truck dumped expired products. Makgatho's husband was shot, but survived and fled.

Black nationalists have protested outside the court, with politicians making angry statements, and others saying the incident is a reminder of the wider issue of inequality in land ownership in South Africa, since the apartheid regime forced many blacks off their land and farms.

Today, many large commercial farms in South Africa remain under white ownership, while black people in rural areas continue to live in poverty, and forage for expired food on white farms.