farm attack
Velash Lombaard would speak to her father several times a day. When she could not contact him on any of his phones, she became worried and went to his farm to check on him.
She found that her father, 74-year-old Sagadava “Manna” Naidoo, a former mayor and farmer, had been shot in the head and thrown on to the railway tracks metres from his home in Canelands, Verulam. This was on May 24, 2022.
Lombaard was testifying at the start of trial of the three men, Sibongiseni Langa, 29,
