A surprise sign-off
Tears flowed when 7de Laan’s (2000-now) beloved lawyer character Xander Meintjies (Theodore Jantjies) died recently in a horrific accident. And making it more upsetting, it was at the funeral of his little son (Kynan Lottering) who lost his battle with his bone-marrow disease. Xander was hit by a car while crossing the road and he died in the arms of Vanessa (Ingrid Paul), whom he asked that morning to remarry him. “It wasn’t a surprise to me,” Theodore says of his character’s last breath. “Since I’d resigned [in September 2019], the writers and I’d had lengthy discussions about how best to say goodbye to Xander and I had a strong feeling that his life was going to be cut short. And
