Murdered Stellenbosch farmer Stefan Smit and a friend had been looking into safer countries abroad, concerned about the wellbeing of their families in crime-ridden South Africa.
Pieter Haasbroek, in his tribute at Smit's memorial service on Friday in the packed Moedergemeente in Stellenbosch, said the vintner had been stolen from the industry and had become the seventh person he personally knew who had died violently in this "evil" country.
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