- A white Zimbabwean farmer was jailed for 15 years with
hard labour yesterday for murdering a black man who had been given land
on his property.
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- Philip Bezuidenhout, 52, ran over Febian Mapenzauswa
and dragged him under his vehicle at his farm in eastern Zimbabwe.
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- Mapenzauswa, a financial manager, had been allotted land
even before it had been gazetted under President Robert Mugabe's violent
redistribution programme.
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- Mapenzauswa died almost immediately after being hit but
Bezuidenhout reported the incident to police and offered to pay the funeral
expenses.
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- Justice Ben Hlatshwayo spoke of "extenuating circumstances"
and said he had missed the death penalty "by a whisker".
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- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/
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