A South African man was tortured and had his ears hacked off during a robbery at his farm.
Cattle farmer Donovan Marx, 50, was alone inside his home after his wife Louise had left for work on Wednesday when two men attacked one of his workers in a barn.
The worker was tied up, and the robbers then burst into the main farmhouse and shot Mr Marx, then stabbed him in the leg.
As he collapsed in a pool of blood, the two men taunted him, then held him down, and cut off his ears before slicing them into small bits.
His neighbour said
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