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A familiar face: Alison Botha spoke out publicly about her attack and wrote a book about it. But her newly freed attackers won’t be as easily recognised in public.
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Rape survivor Alison Botha doesn’t know parole conditions of her attackers

She was raped, stabbed and had her throat slit by Frans du Toit and Theuns Kruger in 1994. The judge said they should never get parole

  • Eunice Masson
6 min read
Alison Botha in 1999. (Sunday Times/Gallo)
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Man who helped Alison Botha after violent 1994 rape, says paroled assailants cannot be rehabilitated

Tiaan Eilerd has said the government must be held responsible when it releases an offender who goes on to commit murder or rape

  • Eunice Masson
5 min read