Pongola – She was a philanthropist who left her native Netherlands to start a home for orphans of Aids in rural Zululand.
But the widow, who had named the home after her late husband, was brutally murdered, and her body thrown into a ravine.
On Thursday two men were convicted of murdering Dutch missionary Riet Vuyk, 66, in March 2012 at Ubombo, a small town south of Pongola, in far northern KwaZulu-Natal.
High Court Judge van Zyl, sitting in Mtubatuba, sentenced Leonard Gina, 45, and Sandile Ngwenya, 23, to life imprisonment for murder, 15 years for robbery, five years for kidnapping and 15 years for possession of an unlicensed firearm.
After the trial….
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