89 Reported Killed by Electric Fences
A Johannesburg newspaper said Monday that 89 people had been killed over the last three years by electrified fences erected by South Africa on its borders with Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
Another five people had been shot to death trying to cross the borders into South Africa, the Star reported.
The paper said army spokesman Hans Stempfle released the figures after a delegation of clergymen visited the border with Mozambique to see one of the country’s two electrified fences.
South Africa erected electrified fences on two 10-15 mile sections of its northern and eastern borders in 1986 and 1987.
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