An unrepentant apartheid-era mass murderer is a beneficiary of a multimillion-rand government land reform programme meant to benefit previously disadvantaged emerging black farmers.Louis van Schoor, 65, who murdered 39 black people between 1986 and 1989 while employed as a security guard in East London, is now a director and beneficiary of a dairy farm project that is meant to empower black people.In previous interviews Van Schoor admitted to shooting at least 100 black people he claimed were burglars around Cambridge, a white suburb in East London.In an interview with a UK-based newspaper 10 years ago, Van Schoor refused to apologise for the killings, saying he was merely doing his job."I never apologised for what I did. I apologised for any hurt or pain that I caused through my actions during the course of my work," Van Schoor told the Guardian in 2006.Asked by the Guardian reporter if it was true that he had shot more than 100 black people, Van Schoor replied: "I can't argue with...
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