Limpopo pig farm murder trial begins in Polokwane High Court
Read more: Polokwane High Court to hear pig farm murder case
The trial is expected to last until next Friday (August 15).
The farm owner Zachariah Olivier, his employees Rudolph De Wet and William Musora, are alleged to have shot and killed Maria Makgato and Lucia Ndlovu and dumped their bodies in a pigsty at the Onvervaght farm in Sebayeng outside Polokwane in August last year.
Read more: Women's bodies found decomposed on farm outside Mankweng
The three face charges of murder, attempted murder and defeating the ends of justice.
Musora, a Zimbabwean national, was allegedly the one who found the bodies while reporting for work.
He also faces an illegal immigration charge.
The matter was last heard before the Mankweng Magistrate's Court in February and was transferred to the Polokwane High Court.
Makgato and Ndlovu were shot while collecting expired food at the farm.
Ndlovu's husband, Mabutho Ncube, who was with them at the time, was also shot, but survived the incident.
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