VIDEO: North farm attack survivor’s message to Ramaphosa, USA

A Pretoria woman whose husband was shot in a north farm attack has made a video which seeks to tell her story to the world, Rekord North reports.

In the video, Mariandra Heunis has a message for president Cyril Ramaphosa as well as residents in the US against the backdrop of the president telling the media in New York that “there were no farm attacks happening in South Africa”.

She then tells the story of how her husband, Johann, was shot in front of her and her daughter in October 2016 on the Leeufontein, Kameeldrift smallholding.

Heunis and her children have since moved to Centurion.

Heunis also shared her story earlier this year at the launch of the AfriForum deputy CEO Ernst Roets’ book Kill the Boer.

She told the media how she, her husband and six-year-old daughter awoke to discover that two armed suspects had gained access into their home.

“They demanded money and we told them we didn’t have any. They shot my husband five times in front of me and my daughter. When my daughter offered them the money from her piggy bank my husband got up one last time and pleaded with them to leave,” said Heunis.

It was at this time that one of the attackers told the other “just kill him brother” and Johann was shot in the head.

Heunis was 36 weeks pregnant with their fourth child, a boy.

“You hear all the stories too horrible to imagine and you pray it doesn’t happen to you. Until it does,” said Heunis.

The video concludes with an appeal to the public to spread the message.

Roets said AfriForum supported Heunis and would include her in its campaign to create international awareness of the farm murders.

Roets and Heunis appealed to the public to share the video:

https://www.facebook.com/mariandraheunis/videos/450151085508464/