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“Why couldn’t it have been me? Why did my son have to die? He was so young and he had such a promising future ahead of him.”
These are the words of Sakkie Dingake (47), the grieving father of 16-year-old Matlhomola Moshoeu who died in Coligny, North West, in 2017 after being caught stealing sunflower heads worth around R60 from a farm in the area.
Sakkie’s wounds were reopened recently when Pieter Doorewaard and Phillip Schutte, the two farmers previously convicted of killing Matlhomola, were acquitted on appeal. The Supreme Court of Appeal overturned the guilty verdict and their jail sentences – 18 years for Doorewaard and 23 years for Schutte – are now null and void.
