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Sentences cold comfort for Brand family
WHILE three out of the four accused will serve lengthy sentences for the brutal murders of the Brand family, it is cold comfort for the surviving family members, whose lives were left shattered.
Danie Brand, 83, his wife Elizabeth “Breggie”, 73, and their daughter Elzabie, 54, sustained blunt and sharp force trauma to their heads, faces and bodies when they were tied up, assaulted and strangled.
The deceased were transported from their smallholding near Hartswater in two vehicles stolen from the farm. The bodies of Danie and Elzabie were abandoned under different trees in the veld. Breggie was strangled to death and her body was concealed in a cave near a natural spring.
Three of the accused – Donald Seoleseng, 25, Tshepo Visagie, 43, and Tshepaone Melato, 24 – were…
