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WE WANT TO KNOW WHY

THEY were utterly devastated following the brutal murders of their daughter and grandson but the messages of support and visits from loved ones brought some comfort to Nico and Carol Terblanche. The joint funeral for their youngest daughter, Nadine Terblanche, and her nine-year-old son, Ruandré Vorster, was the most difficult day of their lives, they tell us, but the outpouring of love they experienced from those close to them was a consolation.

But there was one mourner who made the couple (both 55) feel ill at ease – Freddie Stapelberg, the man Nadine had lived with for the last year and a half of her life.

“Something didn’t feel right, almost as if I couldn’t

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