Guard says killing farmworker was justifiable as he endangered lives | The Star

Johannesburg - Petrus Durant, the security guard on trial for killing a farmworker at Tarlton, near Krugersdorp, early last year, hopes that the court will rule that his decision to fire the fatal shot was justifiable. Masotsha Aaron Mutavhatsindi, 43, died near the informal settlement in which he resided after being shot in the head by Durant.

Photos of a dead Mutavhatsindi slouched in the driver’s seat of the tractor were circulated after the killing.Durant’s defence conceded that it was common cause that he shot and killed the deceased, but sought to convince the court that the action was necessary. “He said to me that he saw the tractor hit a young girl,” said Pretorius, who managed the farm at which Mutavhatsindi worked.

He returned some three days before his killing and attempted to take the tractor after work hours, Pretorius said.

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