Dulile Sowaga
Pieter Doorewaard and Phillip Schutte were originally found guilty of murdering 16-year-old Matlhomola Moshoeu in Coligny.
The SCA acquitted both men after finding the State failed to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt.
The NPA has taken a decision not to appeal the judgment as it believes there is no prospect of success in a higher court.
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) will not be appealing the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) judgment which acquitted the two men found guilty of murdering 16-year-old Matlhomola Moshoeu in Coligny, North West.
In 2018, Pieter Doorewaard and Phillip Schutte were found guilty of murdering Moshoeu after they had caught him allegedly stealing sunflowers on 20 April 2017.
Killer farmer approaches Appeal Court to have conviction overturned
By Bongani Nkosi
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Johannesburg – A farmer who was sentenced for murdering a black person is to approach the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) to argue for the invalidation of his conviction.
Alfred Jan Bezuidenhout, 59, was convicted in 2018 in the Vosloorus Regional Court and jailed for 15 years for mercilessly killing cattle herder Bisani Tshukelo.
Magistrate Suren Harichand ruled in the lower court that prosecutor India Roos had proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Bezuidenhout had shot Tshukelo in the head in 2016.
Tshukelo was herding cattle in Mapleton on the East Rand when Bezuidenhout shot him.