The Skierlik Massacre Episode 102 -

Eighteen-year-old Johan Nel was well known in Skierlik, an informal settlement near Swartruggens in the North West. The young man would visit the community regularly to sell chickens he reared on his parents’ Swartruggens smallholding.

So on January 14 2008, when Nel pulled his father’s bakkie up to the local spaza shop, got out and started walking through the streets of Skierlik, his presence would not have been unusual.

On that day though, Nel was not there to sell poultry. He carried his father’s rifle with him and by the time he was finished, four people — including two children — lay dead and scores more were seriously injured.

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Host: Nicole Engelbrecht

Producer: Nicole Engelbrecht

Music: Snippet (with permission) from Prime Circle’s Evidence

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