Two black women were allegedly shot and fed to pigs by a white farmer and two of his employees in an attempt to cover up evidence in South Africa.
The event caused outrage in the country, according to the BBC.
Maria Makgato, 45, and Lucia Ndlovu, 34, appeared to be searching for food near a farm in northern Limpopo province last August when they were shot.
A court must now decide whether to grant bail to farm owner Zachariah Johannes Olivier, 60, and his employees Adrian de Wet, 19, and William Musora, 50, ahead of their murder trial .
The three men also face charges of attempted murder for shooting Ms Ndlovu’s husband and illegal possession of a firearm.
Mr Ndlovu, who survived, was able to call the police and it was there that officers discovered the decomposing bodies of the two women several days later in the pigsty.
Racial tensions are particularly high in rural South Africa, despite the end of apartheid 30 years ago.
Two other tragic events have exacerbated racial tensions in the country recently.
In an eastern province, a farmer and his bodyguard were arrested in August for the alleged murder of two men, whose bodies were burned to the point that identification became impossible. The two victims are said to have stolen sheep.
The most recent case is that of a 70-year-old white farmer who allegedly drove his lawn mower over a 6-year-old child, breaking both of his legs, because the child allegedly stole an orange from him, while he and his mother were heading into town to do their grocery shopping.
