“I cannot forgive them. I am living the life that I am living because of them. I am in the spotlight, recognised everywhere because of what they did to me. They embarrassed me, undermined me and degraded me. For that, I can never forgive them or forget,” he said.Mlotshwa became known when a video showing him being forced into the coffin as he cried, clapping his hands as he begged for his life, circulated on social media in 2016. The video had been recorded by the two attackers.
While Mlotshwa testified that the two men had suddenly attacked him as he waited to hitchhike in Middelburg, Mpumalanga, they alleged they had found him in possession of suspected stolen copper cables.They embarrassed me, undermined me and degraded me. For that, I can never forgive them.
The two were to serve time for the kidnapping and assault with the intent to grievous bodily harm charges, which remained. Jackson had faced an additional charge of defeating the ends of justice after he confessed to burning the coffin that had been used in the attack.
They should put the thieving black man into jail.
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