Al Jazeera News :
A court is sentencing two white men found guilty of kidnapping, assault and intent to do grievous bodily harm after they shoved a black man in a coffin and threatened to set him alight.
Sentencing proceedings were being heard at the Middelburg Magistrate’s Court on Monday after the men were found guilty of six out of seven charges in August 2017.
The courtroom was packed to capacity as activists and representatives from some of the major political parties flocked to witness the conclusion of a case that shocked the country.
The incident caught the country’s attention after mobile phone footage showed the two white farmers pushing
Oosthuizen and Jackson pushed Mlothshwa into a coffin in August 2016 [Screengrab/Al Jazeera]
The men, Willem Oosthuizen and Theo Martins Jackson, could be seen trying to close the lid of the coffin with their boots as Mlothshwa begged for his life.
The men could be heard hurtling abuse and threatening to douse him with petrol and set him alight.
A court is sentencing two white men found guilty of kidnapping, assault and intent to do grievous bodily harm after they shoved a black man in a coffin and threatened to set him alight.
Sentencing proceedings were being heard at the Middelburg Magistrate’s Court on Monday after the men were found guilty of six out of seven charges in August 2017.
The courtroom was packed to capacity as activists and representatives from some of the major political parties flocked to witness the conclusion of a case that shocked the country.
The incident caught the country’s attention after mobile phone footage showed the two white farmers pushing
Oosthuizen and Jackson pushed Mlothshwa into a coffin in August 2016 [Screengrab/Al Jazeera]
The men, Willem Oosthuizen and Theo Martins Jackson, could be seen trying to close the lid of the coffin with their boots as Mlothshwa begged for his life.
The men could be heard hurtling abuse and threatening to douse him with petrol and set him alight.
