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Eduan van der Merwe recalls the moment he heard the news of the accident that claimed the lives of both his parents – Christian missionaries Eddie and Linda van der Merwe (both 63) – between Karibib and Okahandja last Thursday.<\/em><\/p>\n “I received a call from a friend at around 18h00. He asked me if I had heard any news. I said no,” Eduan (34) says.<\/p>\n “He gave me the number of a police officer and wished me strength. My first thought, funny enough, was that my parents were arrested or given a traffic fine….<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Eduan van der Merwe recalls the moment he heard the news of the accident that claimed the lives of both his parents – Christian missionaries Eddie and Linda van der Merwe (both 63) – between Karibib and Okahandja last Thursday. “I received a call from a friend at around 18h00. He asked me if I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":197620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,6995,6880,11200,51304,5744,4706,724,257,13345,26973,254,11199,5093],"class_list":["post-197619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-burned","tag-call","tag-der","tag-eduan","tag-merwe","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-recalls","tag-shattered","tag-south-africa-today","tag-van","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/197619","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=197619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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