DUNDEE farmer Eicker Henning has been sentenced to 25 years in jail in the Ladysmith High Court in northern KwaZulu-Natal for torturing a worker to death. But Henning will be at home for Christmas and New Year because he was granted leave to appeal the sentence in the Durban High Court on January 15. His bail of R25000 was extended. He accused a worker, Kepisi Mgaga, of stealing tools in January 1997 and hit him on the head with an iron bar, stabbed him in the stomach with a sword, shocked him with a cattle prod and dragged him several hundred metres behind his bakkie. – African Eye News Service