Thursday, October 23, 2025 - One of the men implicated in the brutal murder of two women who were shot and then fed to pigs on a Limpopo farm has complained about life behind bars, saying he is struggling because he is imprisoned with black inmates.
In letters written to his family and friends, Adrian Rudolph
De Wet described his time in prison as unbearable and claimed that he faces
threats of rape and death from other inmates. “Sometimes I wish I could not
wake up. My life in prison is not easy because I am mainly the only white
person in the prison, with other thousands of black inmates. There is one guy
who is my friend here; he protects me from inmates who try to r@pe me or murd3r
me,” he wrote.
The letters were read aloud at the Polokwane High Court,
where De Wet’s employer, pig farmer Zacharia Olivier, is currently on trial
alongside another farmworker, William Musora, a Zimbabwean national. The three
men were arrested and charged with multiple offences, including murder and
attempted murder, following the deaths of Maria Makgato and Lucadia Ndlovu, who
were reportedly scavenging for expired food meant for Olivier’s pigs when they
were shot and thrown into a pigsty.
De Wet later turned state witness against his former boss
and colleague. During Wednesday’s court session, Olivier’s lawyer, Jacobus
Venter, presented De Wet’s letters and used them to question his credibility
and motives.
However, prosecutors objected to selective quoting from the
correspondence, prompting the judge to rule that the letters be read in full to
provide complete context. One of the most striking passages revealed remorse
from De Wet over his actions. “There are people who want to see me dead in this
prison. I wish we had listened to your advice. You warned us to stop shooting
at the people who come to steal at the farm, but we never listened,” he wrote.
The disturbing revelations in court added new layers to a
case that has shocked South Africans with its brutality.
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