‘IT’S A VERY LONELY PATH. I CAN SEE THAT MY SUPPORT MEANS SOMETHING TO THEM, THAT IT MAKES THEIR BURDEN LIGHTER’
SHE tries to stay strong for the sake of her clients. But sometimes it all gets too much for Tania Koen, sitting with them in court for weeks on end and witnessing their pain as they look their daughters’ killers in the eye, hoping for justice.
“I’ve cried with my clients,” says the lawyer from Gqeberha.
“I have no problem with crying and showing emotion. We’re all human and it doesn’t make me less of an attorney.”
Tania’s credentials as an attorney are certainly not in question. She’s been at the heart of June and Barry Steenkamp’s fight to
