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Eugene Terre'Blanche murderer sentenced to life in prison
Source: The Guardian
A black farmworker has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering the South African white supremacist leader Eugene Terre'Blanche.
Chris Mahlangu, 29, had pleaded guilty but argued that he acted in self-defence in what the judge found was a violent dispute over wages.
Mahlangu has said he feels he did no wrong by ridding the world of a man some called a monster.
The judge had rejected a defence argument that Mahlangu had been sodomised by Terre'Blanche.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/22/eugene-terreblanche-murderer-sentenced-life