The World - News from Jan. 27, 1989

A member of South Africa’s Parliament said she will seek the impeachment of a judge for his lenient treatment of a white farmer who tied a black man to a tree and beat him to death over a period of two days. Helen Suzman, the longest-serving Parliament member from the anti-apartheid Progressive Federal Party, said the sentence imposed in November by Justice J. J. Strydom was “outrageously lenient.” Strydom gave the farmer, Jacobus Vorster, 22, a five-year sentence, suspended on condition he pay a $1,360 fine and $55 a month to the victim’s family for five years. The sentence was also criticized by the Johannesburg Bar Council.