/ 28 March 2000

EVIDENCE LODGED IN LABOURER’S SKULL

AN Mpumalanga farm labourer was left paralysed and penniless when she was shot in the head 11 months ago and no one has been arrested because the evidence is lodged in her skull. Police say they need the bullet stuck in 28-year-old Patricia Moswana’s head for ballistic tests, but doctors cannot remove it without killing her. Investigating officer, Inspector Chris Hanekom of Marble Hall police station, said he had seized a rifle believed to have been used in the shooting, but it was not enough as evidence. Moswana was shot while working in a tobacco field in Mpumalanga on March 27 last year by one of four men allegedly shooting doves on a neighbouring farm. Her boss and owner of plot H 56, Willem Kruger, rushed her to Philadelphia Hospital near Dennilton and reported the incident to police. His son witnessed the tragedy because he was in the fields with the workers.