Posted on 06/10/2026 4:11:22 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
An [terrorist]-linked gang who stabbed and battered a British couple to death then threw their bodies to crocodiles have been found guilty of their murder.
World renowned botanists Rod Saunders, 74, and wife Rachel, 63, were ambushed in South Africa whilst out searching for rare gladioli flowers in remote mountains.
The devoted couple who were married for over 30 years and lived in Cape Town met a bad end whilst setting up camp beside a forest dam in a national park.
A court heard how they were viciously tortured for Rachel's gold credit card PIN number and bank account details before being hacked, stabbed and battered to death.
They were then disposed of after being cocooned in their sleeping bags and thrown off the Tugela River Bridge in the Ngoye Forest National Park to Nile crocodiles.
Just 48 hours earlier the botanic experts were being interviewed by BBC presenter Nick Bailey for a Gardeners World special in the remote Drakensberg Mountains.
Shortly after the BBC2 wildlife documentary team and the horticultural experts parted company the pair were hit after parking their 4x4 to prepare to pitch camp.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
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Remember are cultures are equal; the libs like to tell us.
Aw, man. Stupid headline writers. I was hoping it was the murderers who were fed to the crocs.
I thought the hand was fed to crocs based on the headline. Maybe they should be.
Hand = gang
I cannot imagine traveling in South Africa now; it is a country lost to evil and racial hatred.
I read it the very same way and thought: wow!!! Justice would have been served.
Many of us remember when it was a nuclear power, SA is the hard evidence certain cultures within certain demographics will never succeed and will always operate at the level of the animals.
i thought the same thing! I was like HECK YEAH!!!
There I was, thinking black South Africa had outdone the Saudis.
Let’s start with the headline....if you want to know what clickbait is.....this is it.
Picture on credit card?
Picture showing on cashier terminal when credit card used?
Miscellaneous purchase restrictions $X/week?
“Aw, man. Stupid headline writers. I was hoping it was the murderers who were fed to the crocs.”
That was my initial thought after reading the headline too.
South African gang, convicted of killing British couple, fed to crocs
Just a couple of commas in the headline would have made this story great.
That’s the way that I read it also.
Found myself thinking, “Alright! Somebody’s got it figured out”.
> I cannot imagine traveling in South Africa now <
It amazes me that people will go unescorted to places like that. South Africa, the backcountry of Algeria, Central Asia, etc. It is the law of the jungle there. You could be murdered just because some tribesman wants your shoes. Or wants to rape your wife.
Naiveté kills.
Apparently (and sadly), this applies all around the world.
Them...avoid THEM.
Your life may depend upon it.
If only there was some system that would keep those types aparthied from the law abiding.
“I was hoping it was the murderers who were fed to the crocs.”
It’s not too late.
The ANC turned South Africa from a First World Nation into a Third World Hell Hole in 20 years
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