This is a sad Story I read this afternoon..Imagine if it was your family member...This bad.
Johannesburg - Somali pirates who kidnapped a South African couple last year have demanded a $4m (R33m) ransom from the family, according to a newspaper report on Monday.
Durban residents Bruno Pelizzari and Deborah Calitz were sailing off the coast of Tanzania when pirates boarded their yacht and captured them on October 26 last year.
Speaking to The Sowetan newspaper on Sunday, Pelizzari's sister Vera said Bruno had phoned her on September 5 appealing for the ransom to be paid.
"I know you are doing everything you can. If they do not get the ransom, they are going to kill us," Pelizzari reportedly told his sibling.
This was the first time Vera had been in contact with her brother and she said a pirate named Ali had been calling her weekly since then.
"I explained to him that we are not rich. I told him that it is going to take time to get the money. We have been forced to beg for donations," she said.
why the government not pay the ransom, it can pay for the weapon and still be afraid to start war,we are talking about people life ,they are giving money to king mswati to maitain his lifestyle instead of improving people`s life ,it sound little bit akward but is very real that we are still living more unfortunate than in the sixties if not apartheid era ,dog eat dog .if not so they must let people sign that who ever go out of S.A is on his/her own they don't care what happen and recall all embassy abroad and be one standing state which is highly impossible.every life is worth valued and only the state has the money to cover its own people.tax money been stolen ,road Occident fund money been stolen so much is happening and south african seem to care less because of been victimised.Durban residents Bruno Pelizzari and Deborah Calitz were sailing off the coast of Tanzania when pirates boarded their yacht and captured them on October 26 last year.
Speaking to The Sowetan newspaper on Sunday, Pelizzari's sister Vera said Bruno had phoned her on September 5 appealing for the ransom to be paid.
"I know you are doing everything you can. If they do not get the ransom, they are going to kill us," Pelizzari reportedly told his sibling.
This was the first time Vera had been in contact with her brother and she said a pirate named Ali had been calling her weekly since then.
"I explained to him that we are not rich. I told him that it is going to take time to get the money. We have been forced to beg for donations," she said.
we dont have the likes of biko,mahlangu, even the lawyers of today dont help the poor the go for tenders illeterate guys and the so called co-operate business and care less of the poor.
- SAPA
References
News 24. (2011). online. available.
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