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Daily Voice|2022-11-14

Bus my amper klaar

Two Nyanga families say they are very lucky to be alive after a bus crashed into their homes. Mahlubandile Matshaya, 52, says he was busy on the roof of his Lusaka shack off Klipfontein Road on Friday morning when, suddenly, he looked behind him and saw a Golden Arrow bus speeding towards him. He adds that his wife and two grandsons were inside as the vehicle flattened their home, which has since been rebuilt. “I was fixing the roof, facing away from the road, and when I looked back I saw the bus. Shocked “It was at high speed, I was very shocked to see that happening, it was like a dream. I jumped down [from the roof] and ran away and then remembered my family,” the frazzled ou says.…

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Daily Voice|2022-11-14

Ex-berk bust for murder of township vrou

Investigation His case was postponed to November 21 for further investigation. Thandazwa was last seen alive by her friends the day before the grisly discovery. Ntintili reportedly bought her booze and then took her to his shack in Island. Her brother’s girlfriend heard her scream in the middle of the night but couldn’t do anything because she is visually impaired. The following day, she led the residents to the locked shack. The people broke into the hok and lifted up the bed and found Thandazwa’s naked body. The victim’s brother Andile says: “He even raped my sister, he used an object to hit her. “I believed she was killed because she broke up with him. “They had been together for two months, and she broke up with him three weeks…

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Daily Voice|2022-11-14

CHILD KILLERS JAILED

Two child killers were convicted in the Western Cape High Court last week. Ryan Kyle Smith, the nephew of alleged gang boss Jerome “Donkie” Booysen, was sentenced by the Cape High Court to life in the mang for the murders of his estranged girlfriend Altecia Kortje and their 7-year-old daughter, Raynecia. He has been deemed unfit to work with children or to possess a firearm and his name has been recorded in the National Child Protection Register after he was convicted, reports the Weekend Argus. The State proved that in 2020, when Altecia broke up with Smith, he fetched their two children from her parents’ home in Delft without her consent. Killed He killed Raynecia by throttling her and then drowning her in a wheelie bin filled with water. He…

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Daily Voice|2022-11-14

‘Extortion linked to kidnaps’

Financial “When they come into the country they have to take a loan from someone who has financial means and is [from] their culture. That person supplies them with the capital, for example, R1 million to start the business and to purchase their home and vehicles. “They need to pay back the money in instalments. But when they cannot pay [then some are kidnapped] … that happens in countries like India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. If you skip payments, they take your loved ones and force you to pay.” Crime fighter Hanif Loonat has raised the motive of extortion when abductions became prevalent. Happening “I raised this … It’s happening in the Bangladeshi, Somalian, Ethiopian and Chinese communities,” he explained. “[Kidnapping] is done by their own fellow nationals and local…

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Daily Voice|2022-11-14

‘BRING BACK ABIRAH’

Thousands of concerned Cape Flats residents took to the streets to beg for the safe return of eight-year-old Abirah Dekhta who was kidnapped more than a week ago. Angry mense marched to Athlone police station on Friday night where they demanded answers about the investigation. The Daily Voice can reveal that various lobby groups are in discussions to block the N2 highway this week if Abirah is not returned safely. On Friday morning and later that night, the mense took to the streets of Gatesville to raise awareness and issue a public plea to the kidnappers to return the Grade 3 learner from Rylands Primary to her traumatised parents. Abirah was snatched by two armed gunmen as her school lift club driver arrived at Amber Court on Yusuf Gool…

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