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Scheepers, Horner’s former employer and the family’s spokesman, said he hoped the minister’s visit would bring much-needed change to the community.
“We really hope this is the tipping point in tension in this area,” Scheepers said at the time.
Both suspects, Sekwetje Isaiah Mahlamba and Sekola Piet Matlaletsa appeared before the Senekal trial court for the first time on October 6 and again on Friday of last week to request bail.
The state attorney said the men may have made incriminating comments about their alleged involvement in Horner’s murder. He said the state had two witnesses who could attest to this.
One of the witnesses supposedly submitted an affidavit to the police saying that he had seen them in a tavern the day after Horner’s murder. The witness said he heard Matlaletsa tell a third person that he and Mahlamba “went to a farm and attacked a white man who had molested him,” the prosecution said.
The witness said the account led them to believe that the victim was Horner.
Mahlamba denied this and said he was with his girlfriend the night of the murder. He told the court that the bloodstains found on his clothing and shoes were from a sheep that he had slaughtered at a party in September.
However, a second witness, identified by the state as Pinky, denied he was there.
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