FRANCISTOWN: The place is strewn with charred remains of clothes, blankets and burnt tyres, corrugated iron sheets and cement.This is a farm belonging to 47-year-old Basupi Magori that, though all evidence points to the fact that it was previously an organised and lively place, it is now as chaotic and deserted as a battle scene in the presently raging Syrian civil war. Terror knows no bounds for Magori after an unknown person plundered his farm at Sebina Crossroads, killing his chickens, goats and eventually burning down the whole farm.Magori was eventually forced to move out of the farm to live with a sympathetic neighbour at Crossroads for fear of his life.Actually, Magori believes he must have been one of the very first people to be attacked by what people in the villages of Sebina, Nshakazhogwe, Marobela and others, have come to believe is a serial killer and rapist among them.
That was in November 2012
That time, Magori who also works as a security guard, did not feel much perturbed when he first heard that someone had attacked and assaulted an old man at the lands nearby.It only dawned on him when the mysterious person attacked his place."The old man had reported to the police and when this person's barefoot prints were traced the following day, they ended up at my farm."He apparently broke into the house and stole my safety boots (dirifi), some of my clothes and blankets. "We also found some of my belongings strewn all over the place," he says. Magori says that he received a call from the neighbours who says that it seemed like someone had broken into his farm. "I immediately went there and found that he had taken my shoes, some clothes and blankets. We started tracing his footsteps and when I saw the shoe-prints, I realised that he had already put on my boots and I told the police so," he says.
