Police are investigating a case of culpable homicide after a woman was run over by a tractor on a farm close to the Estancia hamlet in the Breyten area, near Ermelo.
The deceased has been identified as 61-year-old Virginia Mathibela-Mngomezulu.
Police spokesperson Lt-Col Jabu Ndubane said officers were called out on Wednesday last week.
They found two men standing near the body of a woman lying on the ground in a pool of blood, showing no signs of life.
One identified himself as the victim’s husband, James Mngomezulu. He told them he had received a call from his farm dwellers that there was a tractor driver ploughing at his farm.
He said he rushed there to see what was happening.
“On arrival, his wife alighted from the vehicle with a family friend,” Ndubane said.
Officers were told she was waving her hands, gesturing to the tractor driver, when she was “hooked down by the blades [discs] from the back of the tractor”. It drove over her, and she died on the spot.
The investigation is continuing. No arrest has been made.
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