The 25-year-old man pleaded not guilty to murder and robbery but pleaded guilty to culpable homicide.
Paul Andrew Opperman, who was arrested in April last year, told the Nelspruit Circuit of the High Court that he had picked up sex worker, Anita Tumelo Loba, at a petrol station in Steelport on March 13.
Loba allegedly told Opperman that she enjoyed rough sex.
"The woman asked to have rough sex with me and she even asked that I beat her up. When I did and when she screamed, I thought she was enjoying the sex and was in ecstasy," Opperman testified.
Opperman is alleged to have assaulted Loba with a blunt object and then rammed her head and face onto a hard surface repeatedly. After realising that he had killed her, Opperman then reportedly drove Loba to a mine site where he dumped her body. He is also accused of stealing Loba's cellphone and R70 from the deceased.
Opperman then returned to the petrol station where he attempted to sell the deceased's cellphone in order to pay for petrol.
Other sex workers noticed Opperman's return and confronted him on Loba's whereabouts. Opperman allegedly said that he had dropped her off where he had picked her up. One of the sex workers allegedly noticed blood on Opperman's shirt, took down his car's registration number.
The sex workers then alerted the police to Loba's disappearance.
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