The Piet Retief Magistrate's Court has heard the postmortem report of two men who died after an alleged assault on Pampoenkraal farm in August last year revealed their bruises "were those from mob justice".
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Eight men are appearing in court for the alleged murder of two people at Pampoenkraal farm in August 2020.
Three of them are also linked to the murder of the Coka brothers.
The men have denied being involved in the matter.
A farmworker accused of murder has told the Piet Retief Magistrate s Court in eMkhondo that police threatened them and tried to force them to implicate white farmers in a murder case.
Zenzele Yende applied for bail along with his seven co-accused on Thursday.
He testified that they were previously told by the investigating officers to stop protecting white farmers .