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NEWS
November 2002
- Well as far as progress into Brandon's case ... NOTHING
has happened, it's over 4 and a half years since this whole mess
first occurred and nobody has been caught yet or convicted. This
is quite usual for South Africa with it's underpaid, overworked
police force and a government who feeds crime.
The people who shot my father have also not been caught yet ...
in fact hardly any criminals get caught in South Africa, even when
they are caught, they easily buy their way out of prison. My wife
and I left South Africa in March 2002, we have had enough of the
killing and violence in South Africa and the total lack of value
for life. It is sad to have to leave your home land but we want
to have our own family one day and South Africa is simply NOT the
place to do it. Brandon's wife Colette and daughter Sinead also
left South Africa in October 2002.
March 2001
- My father stopped on his way home to get some pizza at the local
Pizza shop. While he was waiting for his pizza's, some bastards
entered the pizza shop to rob it. Struggles ensued and my father
got shot in his face. Yes ... SHOT
IN THE FACE !!!! ... The bullet entered his face
through the left cheek, went through his tongue, smashed out his
lower right jaw bone, exited through his right cheek and ended up
in his right shoulder where it was only discovered later. He was
in intensive care "critical' for 13 days. He truly was a lucky
man to have survived this event and we are so glad that another
member was not taken away from us. I truly admire him that he can
still face the world after being traumatised by having his son Brandon
taken away and then having to deal with a near death experience
himself.
Many people have
sent condolences and words of thought to the family by using the
Send Message button
and we would really like to thank everyone for their kind words
and thoughts. Unfortunately we have had so many messages that we
can't reply personally to all of them. However I am in the progress
of compiling a mailing list of all those that did send messages
to keep them informed of updates to this webpage and events in South
Africa.
I have had a
lot of requests from people that want to see how Sinead is growing
up. Well she is absolutely gorgeous. She is now almost 5 years old
and is growing up to be a beautiful little girl. She is also very
clever ... too clever in fact. Her dad would have been proud of
her. I will get some pics up here soon.
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