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Sentencing proceedings in the case against convicted murderer Petrus Durant, 49, continued at the high court in Joburg on Tuesday.

Johannesburg - The general public view that farmworker Aaron Mutavhatsindi’s killing was an act of racism should be counted as a factor that aggravates his murderer’s jail sentence, the State has said.

A security company owner and former police officer, last year Durant fired a fatal shot into Mutavhatsindi’s head in Matshelapata, an informal community near Krugersdorp.Management of the farm had reported to Durant that the farmworker had stolen the tractor.

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