News24 | Life behind bars: Dumisani Phakathi’s killers sentenced for brutal farm crime
Jaco Kemp, Louis Coetzee, and Gert van der Westhuizen have been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Dumisani Phakathi on a chicken farm in Brits.
SUNDAY, 29 MARCH 2026, 02:43
Jaco Kemp, Louis Coetzee, and Gert van der Westhuizen have been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Dumisani Phakathi on a chicken farm in Brits.

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