Too rarely do the police catch the crooks: it was typical that no witnesses in the busy shebeen would talk about Mr Zondo's death.

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As the usual afternoon thunderstorms began to roil up on the horizon, someone rushed to a nearby shebeen, a beer hall down the rutted road, to use the telephone there to call a relative who lived in the area.

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