Court to hear appeal matter in Limpopo pigsty murder case

JOHANNESBURG - An appeal matter between the State and the owner of a Limpopo farm accused of murdering two women and feeding their remains to pigs will proceed at the Polokwane High Court on Thursday.

Farm owner, Zachariah Olivier, wants the State to release a statement he made to police upon his arrest in August, claiming that the information contained in the statement was crucial for his application for bail.

In August, the court granted Olivier access to his statements, but the State took the matter on appeal to the High Court.

Olivier and his two employees, Adriaan de Wet and William Musora, stand accused of shooting and killing Mariah Makgato and Kudzai Ndlovu and then dumping their bodies in a pigsty on Olivier's farm, just outside Polokwane.