HE WAS one of the most important people in her life and the man she loved most in the world – but many of the memories she had of him have been wiped out by shock and grief. “I don’t remember much about my dad,” Zaynab Petersen says. “Post-traumatic stress that does that. Maybe the memories will return someday.”
Yet some have remained – and they’ve haunted her in the 16 years since her father, singer, composer and musical director Taliep Petersen, was murdered.
She’ll never forget seeing her beloved father lying in a pool of blood on the floor of the family home in Athlone, Cape Town, in December 2006.
Zaynab, just seven years old and the youngest of
