Cops probe SMS threat sent to Ermelo farmers

Police in Mpumalanga are investigating a threatening SMS that was sent to five farmers in Ermelo, giving them an ultimatum to vacate their land or be forcefully removed.

Ermelo police spokesperson Captain Carla Prinsloo told a News24 correspondent that two cases of intimidation had been opened over the alarming messages.

The SMS reads: "Vacate your land whyte [sic] man or we will forse [sic] you. Take your wife and children away. We will visit them."

"There are no relationships between the farmers, except that they all live in this district and that all the SMSes came from the same number. There was no mentioning of a deadline for the fa