A white South African farm owner and his two employees are now on trial after being accused of fatally shooting two Black women last year, then feeding their bodies to pigs.
Maria Makgatho, 45, and Lucia Ndlovu, 34, were shot to death last August while they were looking for food on a pig farm belonging to 60-year-old Zachariah Johannes Olivier in the northern province of Limpopo.
According to the BBC, Makgatho and Ndlovu sneaked onto the farm after a dairy company dumped some potentially expired goods on the property. They were fatally shot after they were discovered.
Ndlovu’s husband accompanied both women to the farm and was also shot, but he was able to crawl away and call for help. He reported the incident to local police. Days after the killings, authorities found the women’s bodie