A sad day
So I'm sitting here now, its just after 4 in the morning and I can't sleep, my mind just keeps replaying an terrible thing that happened in our town yesterday. We've all lost a friend and a true role model thanks to crime.
In the early hours of the morning Shane Venter who's only 24yrs old drove to his house and disturbed a gang who were busy robbing his house. After driving into the property the robbers approached him and shot him in cold blood killing him instantly. They then took his bakkie and the only thing they took from his house was a television. After a short joyride in his car they dumped it and the car was found early yesterday morning.
He's gone now and we're all in shock. This is the first time in my life I've lost someone this close to home and he's not coming back. I keep thinking I could just meet him on the beach and have a chat but the fact is I'm never gonna see him again, neither will his girlfriend and family.
Just got so much running through my head right now that I've gone through a box of cigarretes in the last 2 hours and just fail to understand why and how people can be so cruel to kill for a television. Even my 10yo niece was crying today and kept asking me over and over why they killed him and I usually have an answer for everything but I just didn't know what to say to her

A lot of angry rhetoric has now been turned towards the ANC because everybody knew Shane, he was a legend and a good friend and he's gone because of what we perceive as a failed government. Jacob Zuma and his gang can rot as far as I'm concerned, what comes around goes around and the ANC will one day pay a dear price for their corruption.
So I'm sitting here now, its just after 4 in the morning and I can't sleep, my mind just keeps replaying an terrible thing that happened in our town yesterday. We've all lost a friend and a true role model thanks to crime.
In the early hours of the morning Shane Venter who's only 24yrs old drove to his house and disturbed a gang who were busy robbing his house. After driving into the property the robbers approached him and shot him in cold blood killing him instantly. They then took his bakkie and the only thing they took from his house was a television. After a short joyride in his car they dumped it and the car was found early yesterday morning.
He's gone now and we're all in shock. This is the first time in my life I've lost someone this close to home and he's not coming back. I keep thinking I could just meet him on the beach and have a chat but the fact is I'm never gonna see him again, neither will his girlfriend and family.
Just got so much running through my head right now that I've gone through a box of cigarretes in the last 2 hours and just fail to understand why and how people can be so cruel to kill for a television. Even my 10yo niece was crying today and kept asking me over and over why they killed him and I usually have an answer for everything but I just didn't know what to say to her
A lot of angry rhetoric has now been turned towards the ANC because everybody knew Shane, he was a legend and a good friend and he's gone because of what we perceive as a failed government. Jacob Zuma and his gang can rot as far as I'm concerned, what comes around goes around and the ANC will one day pay a dear price for their corruption.
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