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Life for killing white supremacist

A black farm worker has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering South African white supremacist leader Eugene Terreblanche.

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A black farm worker has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering South African white supremacist leader Eugene Terreblanche.

Chris Mahlangu, 29, had pleaded guilty but argued that he acted in self-defence in what the judge found was a violent dispute over wages.

Mahlangu has said he feels he did no wrong by ridding the world of a man some called a monster.

The judge had rejected a defence argument that Mahlangu had been sodomised by Terreblanche.

A second man, who was a teenager at the time of the killing two years ago, was sentenced Wednesday to a two-year prison sentence which means he goes free.


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