Cape Town – The Limpopo Agriculture Forum's Safety and Security division has brought it to IOL's attention that a report carried on our website about a farmer shooting a worker in the head because he mistook the man for a monkey is factually incorrect.

In a written complaint to IOL's editor the organisation has given its version of events in an attempt to set the record straight.

According to the forum, a pastor who lives on the farm was being terrorized by feral monkeys. Such troops of monkeys "can become a pest and hindrance," the forum says.

Shot in head by boss who thought he was a monkey

The pastor allegedly used an air rifle to fire shots in the general direction of the monkeys to scare them away. The agricultural body says a farm worker was accidentally hit.