South African Actor's Fatal Fall Prompts Probe

Twitter users have taken to the social media website with the hashtag #RIPOdwa to honour Odwa Shweni, the actor who died while filming a fight scene at the Sterkspruit waterfall in the Drakensberg. The 39-year-old from Centurion in Johannesburg is believed to have lost his footing and fell 40m off a cliff before his body was later recovered.

39-year-old actor Odwa Shweni who died after falling 40m to his death while filming a fight scene at the Sterkspruit Waterfal in the Drakensberg.

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