JOHANNESBURG: The white-owned farm was well-known to residents of a rural neighborhood in South Africa as a spot the place they may get discarded meals. However when two black girls ventured onto the farm a number of weeks in the past, they by no means made it again. The farm proprietor and two of his staff are accused of fatally taking pictures the 2 girls after which dumping them in a pigsty, the place, police say, they discovered the our bodies decomposed and partly eaten.The incident in Limpopo Province, northeast of Johannesburg, has ignited debate over a few of South Africa’s most explosive points: race, gender-based violence and the continued tensions over land between business farmers, who are sometimes white, and their black neighbours – which have typically resulted in bloodshed.A decide on Wednesday delayed a bail listening to till Nov. 6 for the farmer and the 2 staff, who’re nonetheless in custody.The victims, Maria Makgatho, 44, and Locadia Ndlovu, 35, trespassed on the farm in quest of meals in mid-Aug after a truck from a dairy firm dumped expiring items there, in accordance with prosecutors.The farm proprietor, Zachariah Johannes Olivier, and the farm supervisor, Andrian Rudolph De Moist, 19, each white, had deliberate to shoot any trespassers who got here onto the property, prosecutors mentioned. A forty five-year-old black employee on the farm, William Musora, is accused of serving to to dump the our bodies of the 2 girls. Black residents have held protests outdoors the courthouse, and politicians are issuing offended statements. For some, it speaks to the broader problem of South Africa’s lingering disparities in land possession. Throughout apartheid, many black individuals had been compelled from their land, and at the moment most main business farms stay below white possession. Many black South Africans in rural areas proceed to stay in poverty, resorting to scavenging for meals on farms. On the identical time, many white farmers say that they’ve been the targets of persistent assaults by intruders, making a few of them jittery about anybody perceived as a menace. Some on the intense proper have used these assaults to undertake outlandish rhetoric claiming a “white genocide.”