South African white farmers, Black protesters face off over farm murder
TIM COCKS WHITE South African farmers and Black protesters hurled abuse and threats at each other yesterday during a court hearing in a murder case that has exposed still simmering racial tensions 26 years after the end of apartheid. The killing of Brendin Horner, a white man whose body was found tied to a pole at his farm in Free State province, sparked riots at the start of this month, and prompted President Cyril Ramaphosa to appeal to South Africans to "resist attempts ... to mobilise communities along racial lines". The farmers outside the courthouse in the town of Senekal…