Philip Echbertus

"My ears are in the fridge." North West cattle farmer Donovan Marx (50), after being shot in the back (bullet through the kidney and out the stomach), stabbed in the leg, beaten, and having both ears hacked off and chopped into pieces by three balaclava-clad attackers on his Syferfontein farm near Ventersdorp on the morning of 28 October, was still conscious enough while lying in a pool of his own blood to tell the farm worker to put his severed ears in the fridge.​ When neighbouring farmers arrived and found him bloody in the house, he told them, “My ears are in the fridge.” Surgeons later could not save them. Part of his colon was also removed.