Odendaal is being tried in the Bloemfontein High Court, several hours drive from Sasolburg, because justice officials feared that anger over what is being seen as a race killing, would boil over, leading to confrontations between Odendaal's family and the black community of Sasolburg.

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The 45-year-old construction company owner Pieter Odendaal says he cannot remember what happened on the night that Mosoko "John" Rampuru was physically attached by a length of wire to the back of Odendaal's pickup truck, and dragged to his death through the streets of Sasolburg.

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