Outside court, white protesters showed an effigy of a hanged black man as backers of Eugene Terre’Blanche’s killer, Chris Mahlangu, sang racial songs.
Eugene Terre’Blanche’s killer, farmhand Chris Mahlangu, has been sentenced to life in prison for the AWB leader’s murder last year.
No matter that the victim was SA’s top right-winger, Eugene Terre’Blanche. In the end it was just another brutal farm murder, writes Phillip de Wet.
Chris Mahlangu has been found guilty of murdering Eugene Terre’Blanche just over two years ago, bringing to a close the first part of a complex trial.
The trial of two people accused of killing right-winger Eugene Terre’Blanche has been postponed in the high court sitting in Ventersdorp for judgment.
The high court in Ventersdorp has heard that the state has no evidence against a minor accused of killing right-wing leader Eugene Terre’Blanche.
A mortuary worker who removed rightwing leader Eugene Terre’Blanche’s body from his house has denied seeing semen-like fluid on his genitals.
A sodomy claim by a farm worker accused of killing right wing leader Eugene Terre’Blanche has been questioned during his murder trial.
The mother of a minor accused in right wing leader Eugene Terre’Blanche’s murder trial was present when he pointed out crime scenes and confessed.
Slain rightwing leader Eugene Terre’Blanche’s wife testified that suspect Chris Mahlangu arrived at her house drunk on the day of her husband’s death.
The AWB leader Eugene Terre’Blanche murder trial is set to resume with testimony from the police captain who visited the murder scene.
The trial of two farmworkers accused of killing rightwing leader Eugene Terre’Blanche continues in the High Court sitting in Ventersdorp on Monday.
More police bungling became clear in the Ventersdorp High Court on Wednesday in the trial of the pair accused in Eugene Terre’Blanche’s murder.
It is not known whether Terre’Blanche had been drinking at the time of his death, as blood tests have still not been finalised.
A police witness gave damning evidence to strengthen the state’s case and cast doubt on one of the suspect’s self-defence arguments.
