A white farmer in South Africa is at the centre of a chilling murder trial after being accused of shooting two black women who were searching for food and then feeding their bodies to pigs.
Zachariah Johannes Olivier, 60, is alleged to have gunned down Lucia Ndlovu, 34, and Maria Makgato, 45, when he found them looking through waste at his pig farm near Polokwane in Limpopo province.
The disturbing case has sparked outrage across the country and cast a spotlight on long-standing racial divisions in farming communities, where white landowners dominate and black workers make up most of the labour force.
Adrian Rudolph de Wet, a 20-year-old farmworker, has turned state witness and told the court this week that Olivier shot the women after accusing them of trespassing.
Local media say the women had been gathering expired dairy products thrown out for the pigs.
