There was jubilation in a South African court on Wednesday when two white farm workers who pushed a teenage boy out of a moving van after accusing him of stealing sunflowers were sentenced. Pieter Doorewaard, 28, and Phillip Schutte, 35, were sentenced to 18 and 23 years in prison respectively for murder and other offences, reports the BBC. Doorewaard and Schutte were su bsequently found guilty of “murder, kidnapping, intimidation, theft and pointing of a firearm”. Mosweu’s death reminded many of the numerous racially charged incidents that have occurred between white farm owners and poor black farmhands. It will be recalled that in 2016, two white farmers in eastern Mpumalanga province forced a black man they accused of trespassing and stealing copper cables into a coffin.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 07, 2019 11:37 UTC