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    JUSTICE AFTER 44 YEARS

    Mar 25, 2022 4 minutes
    BY JANA VAN DER MERWE
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    FANI MAHUNTSI

    AS AN intensive care nurse, she’s faced trauma daily with no reprieve as the pandemic set it.

    She continued to save lives as wave after wave of infection swept through the country, leaving her on the frontline in a battle against death. And through it all Riana Hellerle was going through her own private hell, waiting to see if justice would be served.

    Five years ago, the 55-year-old mom of two walked into a police station in her hometown of Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal, to lay charges against her stepfather for sexually abusing her as a child.

    For 44 years Riana had felt like she was suffocating in silence but on 8 March this year she finally had the

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