The Horrifying Case of Fritz Joubert

A South African farmer who filmed himself killing a friend with a rifle butt had a history of violence. Fritz Joubert, a former police officer discharged "after too many deaths," bludgeoned sangoma Anele Hoyana to death in December 2019 while neighbors watched [citation:3][citation:6]. Joubert, who had been training to become a traditional healer himself, called Hoyana "the devil" during the attack and held his two young children hostage [citation:11][citation:14]. Minutes after posting videos of the murder on Facebook, Joubert was shot dead by police who arrived at his Gonubie smallholding [citation:6][citation:14]. Friends described his descent into madness, fueled by divorce, financial ruin, substance abuse, and a psychiatric breakdown [citation:9][citation:10].