We were treated like slaves: Farmhands facing death penalty

Kgalalelo and Mpe PIC: MORERI SEKAGOMO
Kgalalelo and Mpe PIC: MORERI SEKAGOMO

Tshiamo Kgalalelo and Mmika Mpe are in the fight for their lives, following their conviction for kidnapping, killing, stealing from and burning an Afrikanner businesswoman in 2014. Yesterday, they told the Lobatse High Court that the incident stemmed from their anger at alleged slave conditions on the farms in the district. Mmegi Correspondent, TUMELO MOUWANE was in court

In a tense and emotional court sitting here yesterday, the two former farmhands asked Judge Abednego Tafa to consider the alleged state of their lives prior to the murder.

Earlier this year, Tafa found Kgalalelo (32) and Mpe (28) guilty in a January 2014 incident in which they waylaid Reinette Vorster, brutally murdering her, stealing from her and then setting her body on fire in her Toyota D4D.

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