A Cape Town mother wept inconsolably after both her sons – one after the other – were shot and killed at the weekend.
The deaths of her sons, Luchen Samuels, 19, and Angelo Hufke, 32, whose bodies she had to identify alone, just years after she buried her first child, who died the same way, come exactly 47 days after President Cyril Ramaphosa promised to deploy the army to the Mother City.
And though soldiers are finally set to put boots on the ground tomorrow in the crime-ravaged city, at a staggering cost of R832 million, for families like hers, it comes too late.
Samuels and Hufke, of Uitsig Avenue, were among five people killed in Gugulethu and Philippi East on Saturday, police spokesperson Colonel Andre Traut said.
Three others,…