A young couple waited desperately for a rescue that would never come.
Jessica Kuhn and Johanco Fleischman’s Toyota Hilux had run out of fuel on the N12 W. near Benoni, about 32 km east of Johannesburg.
But instead of salvation, they encountered evil.
As the group awaited rescue, three men – illegal gold miners according to local media reports – walked past their vehicle.
When they returned, one of the men allegedly whispered “umhulungu,” allegedly a derogatory phrase for whites.
Then one of the trio of thugs pulled out a revolver and fired, parking at least nine slugs in Fleischman’s body.
He was 19.
As Kuhn, 23, screamed hysterically, the triggerman cooly leaned into the vehicle and silenced her forever with a single bullet to the head.
The brazen murders are just the latest in a spate of homicides targeting whites.
Last week a South African activist who vocally opposed attacks on white farmers was battered to death with a hammer in her home.
In October 2018, teen Hannah Cornelius was kidnapped, gang-raped and murdered after four men armed with knives stormed her car.
And in early 2017, a British woman was murdered and her husband left for dead after they were subjected to torture, using blowtorches, at their farm.