SHE remembers the blind panic she felt when her husband suddenly dropped the phone during one of their long-distance calls.
“There was the noise of a bomb exploding somewhere and they were being told to evacuate,” Shereen van Deventer recalls.
She’d been hugely relieved when her husband, Gerco, decided to leave his dangerous job in Afghanistan in favour of an opportunity in Libya. It would be safer, the couple from Swellendam in the Western Cape believed.
But in a cruel twist of fate Gerco (47) was kidnapped and held hostage by a paramilitary group in Libya. His kidnappers then sold him to another terrorist group who took him to Mali.
Now, six years later, he’s
