Victor Mlotshwa, who was forced into a coffin by two men in Middelburg, told the High Court sitting in the town's Magistrate's Court that he would rather have been shot than buried alive.
"I think would have been better if they had shot me than burying me alive,'" Mlotshwa told the packed court gallery.
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