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As part of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, I share a painful story that has haunted me every day since that one fateful Saturday morning.<\/em><\/p>\n I cannot begin to express the sorrow and regret that I feel.<\/p>\n On that day, my husband and I received a phone call at 04h00 from the police.<\/p>\n They told us they had been called to our son’s house and had bad news: Our son shot and killed his wife and then shot himself in front of their two young children – an 11-year-old son and a five-year-old…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> As part of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, I share a painful story that has haunted me every day since that one fateful Saturday morning. I cannot begin to express the sorrow and regret that I feel. On that day, my husband and I received a phone call at 04h00 from the police. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":186593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,12706,4327,9021,4706,724,257,10619,254,8963],"class_list":["post-186592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-grief","tag-killed","tag-mothers","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-son","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wife"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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