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Ons gebede is verhoor, en dit is slegs genade van bo dat die moordenaars gevang en gestraf is,\u201d s\u00ea Linette Erasmus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Erasmus is Burger se dogter. Sy woon sedert Januarie met haar gesin in Australi\u00eb. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sy het verder ges\u00ea hulle as familie is opreg dankbaar vir die handjievol mense wat nie moed opgegee het nie en hul werk met passie en deernis gedoen het om te verseker dat die moordenaars toegesluit word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Burger, \u2019n pensioentrekker, is in Februarie 2019 by sy huis in Reitzstraat, Kroonstad, vermoor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die moordenaars het hom die Saterdagoggend in sy motorhuis ingewag. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Burger was die oggend vroeg dorp toe vir inkopies en om medisyne vir sy bedl\u00eaende vrou, Martie, te kry. Sy is die vorige dag uit die hospitaal ontslaan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"InfoBlock\" data-pos=\"middle\" id=\"embed_e44b6a22\">\n<div class=\"heading\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">Nadat hy sy motor by die huis parkeer het, het Rakaki en Tsopo hom oorval en is hy met \u2019n hamer doodgeslaan. Sy lyk is in \u2019n seil toegedraai en in die motorhuis gelaat.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Nadat hy sy motor by die huis parkeer het, het Rakaki en Tsopo hom oorval en is hy met \u2019n hamer doodgeslaan. Sy lyk is in \u2019n seil toegedraai en in die motorhuis gelaat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Een van die moordenaars het die huis in gegaan waar Martie gel\u00ea en slaap het. Hulle het die ander voertuig in die motorhuis se sleutel geneem en een van hulle het per ongeluk die paniekknoppie gedruk. 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