Murder: Asian-SA sugar cane farmer Mohammed Engar 67 tortured to death in Winterton KZN

Asian-SA sugar-cane farmer Mohammed Engar 67 in Winterton KZN tortured to death by 5 black men who stole little of value: wife seriously beaten in 2.5hour ordeal: Sugar-cane farmer Mohammad Engar (67) tortured, killed by 5 robbers on his Winterton, KZN farm “He was covered in blood, the lower part of his legs had no skin and he was struggling to breathe..." Night of terror on farm: reporter: Mervyn Naidoo December 15 2013 Domestic worker Nonhlanhla Gumede points to the blood stains on the carpet where her employer Mohammed Engar was killed in a bedroom in his farmhouse in Winterton. Pictures: Zanele Zulu Lying face-down on the carpet in a Winterton farmhouse, domestic worker Nonhlanhla Gumede prayed earnestly for her employers and herself.Armed robbers were standing over Gumede and her bosses, Mohammad Engar, 67, and his wife Razia, 56, demanding cash and valuables, when she called for divine intervention. Her prayer for safety did not come true.The robbers pounced, violently.She survived but Engar died and his wife is still recovering from the severe beating and torture she and her husband were subjected to last Thursday night. Engar, a sugarcane farmer in northern KZN, died in hospital last Saturday.He was beaten, stabbed and tortured with a hot iron during a two-hour ordeal, when five armed men attacked their home. The attack left Razia with burn marks on her legs, a stab wound to her back and a bloodied face.The trauma has resulted in memory loss for Razia who is recovering with family in Pietermaritzburg. One of Engar’s farmworkers was shot twice when robbers arrived at his Noodhulp Farm. The unidentified man is recovering in hospital. VERY LITTLE OF VALUE ROBBED: The robbers ransacked the house but only took cellphones, a CCTV recording machine, clothing and a car which was later recovered.SAPS spokesman captain Thulani Zondi confirmed five robbers were involved in the attack on Engar’s Noodhulp farm.“No arrests have been made,” Zwane said. Walking through the house yesterday where bloodstains were still visible on the bedroom carpet, Gumede, who bears no physical wounds, is emotionally scarred. “I’m afraid. I struggle to sleep at night,” Gumede said.She said her sleep is broken each night and memories of the brutal robbery come flooding back.“It’s like a movie playing in my head, over and over again. I don’t know if I’ll ever forget what happened that night,” she said.On the night of the incident Gumede, 31, said she was in a deep sleep but was awoken by Razia’s piercing screams. Gumede shared a room with Razia’s 82-year-old mother, who was also in the house at the time.Before she realised what was happening, Gumede was confronted by a man pointing a gun at her. “I screamed,” she said.“He called me a s**t and told me to keep quiet,” Gumede said.She was given trousers to tie the old woman’s hands with - and Gumede was forced to gag her with a scarf. Gumede was then thrown on the floor next to Engar and his wife. “I could see blood pouring from madam’s face (Razia).“I held her and we both prayed.”The domestic worker believes the robbers misconstrued their desperate prayers as attempts to hatch an escape plan. Razia and Gumede were subsequently moved to separate rooms.While in one of the bedrooms, Gumede says that one of the robbers forced her on to the bed and told her her life would be spared if she had sex with him. But Gumede claims being in her menstrual cycle saved her from being raped.“The man didn’t believe me when I told him. He forced me to take off my underwear so he could see for himself,” she said. Gumede eventually came out of her room and heard one of the farmworkers calling out to her.The police were accompanying him. She checked on the other rooms and found Engar in her bedroom. “He was covered in blood, the lower part of his legs had no skin and he was struggling to breathe. I’ll never forget that night,” said Gumede. A total of ten farmers have now been murdered in KwaZulu Natal in the past six months and dozens also were left seriously injured, reported - Sunday Tribune http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/night-of-terror-on-farm-1.1622846#.Uq8PTtLuJwj ---------------- By Nov 5 2013 there were nine farmers murdered in Kwazulu-Natal province: this latest murder brings this total to ten murders. http://www.censorbugbear.org/farmitracker/reports/view/1776 After the murder of Winterton farmer Mohammed Engar, 67, the total is ten. http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/night-of-terror-on-farm-1.1622846#.Uq8PTtLuJwj KZN farm murders an attack on entire rural community: DA KZN leader Sizwe Mchunu warned on 4 November 2013 - nothing that by that time, there had been nine-farm murders in 2013 - up from 4 in 2012 and one in 2011. The total number of farm murders rose to ten with the murder of Asian-SA farmer Mohammed Engar, 67, tortured to death on his Winterton farm. Mchunu noticed that ALL the murder-victims and the surviving victims of farm attacks had been 'middle-aged to elderly men' ----------------------------------- Killed thus far on KwaZulu-Natal on farms in clear hatecrimes accompanied by torture and mutilation were May 7 Peter Hackland 61 of Cromleigh farm, Carisbrook, Ixopo May 25 Dave Maratos 65, farm-sitting Brydom Farm Greytown July 28 George Fakude 45 Wartburg farm manager killed in ambush Aug 11 Timothy Green killed at Mellon Green farm, Newcastle Sept 27 Eston sugar cane farmer Micky Hampson 69, killed Oct 9 Eugene van der Merwe 61 beaten to death, Sunnyside farm Ixopo Oct 17 Dan Knight 56 bludgeoned to death, Underberg farm Oct 21 Willem Wietes, Afrikaner-Dutch dairy farmer, 78, shot dead at his farm stall Ngoje, Vryheid Dec 15 Mohammad Engar 67, tortured to death by 5 blacks, Winterton farm ----------------- Other farm attack in which KZN farmers were injured: http://www.censorbugbear.org/farmitracker/reports/view/785 http://www.censorbugbear.org/farmitracker/reports/view/1856