Cloete then called on the surrounding Zulus, in exchange for a reward, to seize cattle and horses from the Boers and bring them to him.[970] This resulted in a spade of farm attacks on the Boers, during which three elderly Boers, Dirk van Rooyen, Theunis Oosthuizen, and Cornelis van Schalkwyk, were murdered in cold blood and the Boer women were stripped naked and driven across the veld.
