PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BED HUNGRY

Whether Elzabe, Breggie and Danie Brand were street vendors or students; Uber drivers or doctors; coloured, black or, for that matter, white farmers, they did not deserve such a blood-curdling death. Yet one must also wonder, precisely because they were white farmers, whether their murders were not always doomed to meet a yawningly familiar South African reaction.

The story had barely broken before social media buried the family beneath a heaped pile of rubble and racial innuendo. Like some cyber throwback to the 2017 #BlackMonday protests, those dormant calls for government to prioritise farm murderers so as to nip in the bud what