Slain farmer 'dogged by death threats'

10 January  2007

A KwaZulu-Natal farm manager who was clubbed to death by a mob in an apparent land dispute in northern KwaZulu-Natal had been threatened twice prior to his murder.

In an interview with Sapa on Wednesday evening, Deon du Toit, a colleague of the murdered farm manager, said Kenneth Lionel Eva received death threat on Sunday and on Monday.

Kenneth Lionel Eva, 47, was clubbed to death with knobkerries and sticks and his car set alight on Tuesday morning when he attended a meeting near the New Venture Farm in the Nkwaleni area north of Melmoth.

Du Toit said he had returned from leave when he was told about the death threats. 

"I asked him whether he didn't want me to go with, but he said it was just a meeting. He still phoned me to say thanks for the bunny chow that I had bought him. He had never had one. He said he would see me in an hour.