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THERE WAS A BIG BANG

AFTER a long week of court appearances and client consultations he was looking forward to spending the evening with his family.

Lawyer Ivan de Villiers fetched his daughter and her boyfriend from the home for the disabled where they lived and took them to his home in Wellington in the Western Cape for their regular weekend visit.

They had everything planned: there was a rugby game on TV that Saturday and he was going to teach his daughter, Adri-Marie, the waltz in preparation for her home’s Valentine’s Day dance.

Nothing was going to stop them from enjoying the weekend – especially not loadshedding. There

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