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Kobus Louwrens

Gender: Male
Print Journalist
  • Organisation: Die Burger
  • Case: Attack
  • Culprit: unknown men
  • Country: South Africa
  • City: Cape Town

In August 1996, journalist Kobus Louwrens and photographer Christo Lötter, both from the Cape Town newspaper Die Burger, witnessed the murder of drug dealer Rashaad Staggie by the Islamist vigilante group People Against Gangsterism And Drugs (PAGAD). The vigilantes shot Staggie and set him on fire; he died at the scene.

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