Gerrie Nel and Barry Roux team up to defend Coligny killers

Legal heavyweights Barry Roux and AfriForum’s Gerrie Nel will fight the appeal proceedings of the farmworkers convicted of the murder of a Coligny teenager.

The pair, who went head to head during Oscar Pistorius’s trial, say although the murder of teenager Matlhomola Mosweu was “very sad”, the two accused are not guilty.

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