Inquest opened after fan falls to his death
Drive with John Perlman · 17 July 2026 · 10m
Speaker 1: Seven point two drive at nineteen minutes past five. Let's reflect on a real tragedy Speaker 1: after the spring Box and Scotland played at Loftus Faistfeldt Stadium on Saturday. The kickoff Speaker 1: of the game was at twenty to six, so as people walked out, they would Speaker 1: have been walking out into the night well underway, a dark evening tragedy for someone Speaker 1: called hiro vandenberghiad come to watch the game from his home in Secunda and Pumlanga, Speaker 1: and our thoughts go out to him and his family because it was discovered after Speaker 1: they couldn't find him a he hadn't turned up at the place where the where Speaker 1: he and his group of friends and family were staying, that he'd fallen into a Speaker 1: hole at an excavation site near the stadium and died. Now this is going to Speaker 1: be, we understand from the police, the subject of an inquest. But it raises some Speaker 1: broad questions because I have to say I come across holes in pavements on a Speaker 1: regular basis, I really do, and some of them have at one point had reflective Speaker 1: tape around them, but that often gets removed. And the problem is many of these Speaker 1: holes as various metros go about doing their business, but seemingly not always finishing it. Speaker 1: Eventually, the perimeter security around these very large excavations starts becoming more and more redundant Speaker 1: as time passes. Speaker 2: So what does the law say? Speaker 1: I mean, Antle Kumalo's an admitted attorney of the High Court of South African joins Speaker 1: us now on seven oh two drive missus Cumalo, welcome and thanks so…
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