/ 13 January 1995

High price for fruit

Shadley Nash

Two youths from Sterkstroom are in hospital with bullet wounds after an irate resident shot them for stealing fruit from the trees in his yard.

The bullet fired by the unnamed resident first passed through 14-year-old Patrick Zolani before lodging in the body of his friend, Willem Pretorius, also 14.

Police said a charge of attempted murder was being investigated but no arrests had been made. — Ecna