Wounds of war — Son of farmer murdered by MK shares pain of TRC
Daily Maverick | 27.02.2026 05:56
In November 1978, Jacob Gabriël Cilliers van der Merwe was 16 and in high school when his father, Jacob Gabriël van der Merwe (57) stopped to offer a lift to two hitchhikers on a lonely road a near Thabazimbi, in then Northern Transvaal (Limpopo).