Huisgenoot: Ware Lewensdramas, Through Thick-And-Thin
Season 8, Episode 6
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In April 2021 three people died under mysterious conditions in a house in Pretoria. More than three months later, the police and private investigators must still discover precisely what happened that evening.
On 12 September 1989 the anti-apartheids activist and human rights advocate, Anton Lubowski, was assassinated. More than 30 years later his family still grapples with unanswered questions about his death.
For more than a year people have been surmising about the threat of terrorists in the north of Mozambique. When extremists targeted Palma in the Cabo Delgado province earlier this year, the lives of various South Africans changed.
One was a celebrated actor, the other a promising young designer. In April 2006, the lives of the two friends, Brett Goldin and Richard Bloom, were cut short when they were kidnapped and murdered in Cape Town.
When one mother's son died, another mother's son received his lungs. Now, a few years later, the women are close friends.
In 1986, Careltjie van Aswegen, a farm boy from Deakesville, lost 88kg to win a girl's heart, marking the beginning of a seesaw ride for Careltjie. From that first feature, South Africans journeyed with him-through thick and thin.
In June 2020, a search was launched for the 52-year-old cancer patient Debbie Venter after she went missing in Pretoria. Two months later, her half-sister and brother-in-law were arrested in connection with her disappearance and death.
Next to an ice-cold freshwater cave near Daniëlskuil, people waited anxiously for the experienced diver, Dave Shaw, to bring the body of another diver, Deon Dreyer, to the surface. But things did not go according to plan that day.
Fifteen years ago, her ex paid someone to shoot her unborn baby and make it look like a hijacking. Now, she is not only grappling with the trauma and loss but also with the knowledge that the man responsible was released on parole.
After years of being on the run for the murders of Chantelle Barnard and Andrea Venter, Jurgen Vandekeere and Gerhard Jansen van Vuuren have finally been caught. It's time for them to pay for their crimes and do their time.
The cruel murder of Yolandi Botes still has the police and private investigators guessing. The mother from Dana Bay went missing when she went to Gauteng. Days later, parts of her body were found in the Vaal River.
After being paralysed from the breast down in a senseless attack, Andrew Merryweather hasn't only been struggling to relearn how to use his body but also to let justice be done.
As teenagers, they shared their first kiss, but then their paths separated. Two failed marriages and four decades later, they were reunited - but the fairy tale ended before it had a chance to begin.
- We look back at this century-old magazine's most dramatic and iconic true events. Meet the characters, experts and journalists behind the stories.
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