'I am your boss today because I killed ET'

12 October 2011 - 02:57 By CHARL DU PLESSIS
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Chris Mahlangu, one of the men accused of murdering AWB leader, Eugene Terre Blanche.
Chris Mahlangu, one of the men accused of murdering AWB leader, Eugene Terre Blanche.

Chris Mahlangu, one of the men accused of murdering Eugene Terre Blanche, allegedly bragged about killing the AWB leader in April last year.

Matshediso Matsietsa, a farm worker who lives on an adjacent farm, testified yesterday that she was sitting in front of her house with her boyfriend when Mahlangu and the 16-year-old boy who, along with Mahlangu, was charged with the murder, appeared.

She said the "big one" (Mahlangu) told her: "I am your boss today because I killed Eugene Terre Blanche."

"He then said if you do not believe that I have killed him, here is his phone," which Mahlangu then threw on to the ground.

Matsietsa said the minor had been "quiet and scared" while Mahlangu was excited and "seemed proud of what he did".

But advocate Norman Arendse, appearing for the minor accused, questioned the veracity of her statement, pointing out that it is written in English, a language Matsietsa doesn't understand.

Matsietsa said the statement "was read back to [her] and explained in Setswana". It was not clear if she had signed it.

The trial of Mahlangu and the boy yesterday entered its second day in the circuit division of the High Court sitting in Ventersdorp.

Witnesses testified in front of a table laden with evidence from the case - including bloodstained khaki overalls and a heavy panga on which hairs and stains were still visible.

Testimony was heard from a police officer, Matsietsa and another farm worker who saw the pair shortly after the murder.

Richard Silane, to whom Mahlangu and the minor accused went after Matsietsa refused to allow them to use her phone, testified that Mahlangu was wearing an overall with a lot of blood spots on it and later also told him: "We stabbed Terre Blanche."

Silane said that he had lent them the phone and that the boy had used it to call the police.

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