{"id":78610,"date":"2018-02-25T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T06:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=78610"},"modified":"2018-03-02T10:59:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T08:59:35","slug":"video-farm-attack-victims-grave-dug-desecrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2018\/02\/25\/video-farm-attack-victims-grave-dug-desecrated\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO &#8211; Farm attack victim\u2019s grave dug up, desecrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AMCU members contracted to Goedehoop Mine have been striking for the past month.<\/p>\n<p>The striking miners are employed by PG Labour Hire &amp; Construction which is situated on the farm Goedehoop, close by the mine.<\/p>\n<p>Farm owner Mr Pieter Honeyborne&#8217;s father, Pieter started the company in 1995 and the company has been contracted by Goedehoop Mine since its establishment.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2009 Mr Honeyborne senior was killed during a farm attack after which his wife Bella took over the business and son Pieter took over the cattle farm.<\/p>\n<p>Recently Mr Honeyborne senior&#8217;s grave was desecrated and the family believes AMCU members were responsible for digging up the grave.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Grave of farm attack victim desecrated\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W_8nklVIETM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIts the most offensive, personal and painful thing anyone can do,\u201d Honeyborne junior told\u00a0<b>www.mobserver.co.za<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>He says that luckily his father had been cremated so there wasn&#8217;t any coffin and remains for the evildoers to desecrate.<\/p>\n<p>Only AMCU members in their employment are striking.<\/p>\n<p>National Union of Mineworkers<em> (<\/em>NUM) members are still working but the Honeybornes had to relocate around 60 NUM members, their families and all their belongings to places of safety after seven houses were torched.<\/p>\n<p>A Quantum minibus belonging to PG Labour Hire &amp; Construction was also torched at the company&#8217;s workshop on Goedehoop farm.\u00a0Office personnel has since relocated to Middelburg for their safety.<\/p>\n<p>Mpumalanga AMCU head Mr John Sibiya says the union does not condone violence and intimidation.<\/p>\n<p>He says the police must investigate and take the necessary steps to bring the culprits to book.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this point I cannot say yes it was AMCU members, or no it wasn&#8217;t, its the job of the police to prove culpability\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Mr Honeyborne has moved more than 3000 heads of cattle to safety in Amersfoort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family of Pieter Honeyborne, who was killed in a farm attack in 2009, believes that striking\u00a0Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) workers are responsible for digging up his grave.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":78614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Gerhard Rheeder","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[10560,6355,10561,7989,10562,1875,10563,2035,10564],"class_list":["post-78610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-amcu","tag-farm-attack","tag-farm-attack-victim","tag-goedehoop-mine","tag-honeyborne","tag-num","tag-pg-labour-hire-construction","tag-strike","tag-victims"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["AMCU","farm attack","farm attack victim","goedehoop mine","honeyborne","num","PG Labour Hire &amp; 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