Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: Biography & Memoir, Local Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction, Adult
ISBN: 9781776095780
Published: May 2020
Imprint: Zebra Press
Page Extent: 400
Format: Paperback
RRP 320.00

Griekwastad Murders

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New edition includes the sentencing and identifies Don Steenkamp as the murderer for the first time …

Just after dusk on Good Friday, 6 April 2012, the peace and quiet permeating the small Northern Cape town of Griekwastad was disrupted when a young teenage boy sped into town in his father’s Isuzu bakkie and screeched to a halt in front of the town’s nearly deserted police station to announce that his parents and sister had been brutally shot and killed on the family farm, Naauwhoek

Based on interviews with all the role-players, including the investigating officers on the case, the forensic and ballistic experts, and family and friends of the deceased, this is the riveting account of what really happened on Naauwhoek farm on that fateful day, as told by the...

About the Author

Jacques Steenkamp

Jacques Steenkamp

Jacques Steenkamp has been covering breaking-news stories across South Africa for almost a decade. During this time he has reported on hundreds of murders and countless court cases. He is considered one of the country's top hard-news reporters and has been awarded numerous journalism prizes over the years. Jacques covered the Griekwastad murders from the beginning and, along with his contacts and sources, investigated and exposed the truth behind this gruesome case.

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