Die Moord op Liezel de Jager

On 13 October 2021, South Africa was shaken by the news of Reverend Liezel de Jager, beloved pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church South Coast in Amanzimtoti, KwaZulu-Natal, who was murdered in the driveway of the parsonage. The strange events that followed in the days and years afterward, Liezel’s parents’ relentless fight for justice, and the arrest of her husband, who dies under mysterious circumstances in the hospital, are laid bare in this account. The murder remains unsolved.

Anena Burger has been a journalist for 15 years and has been Netwerk24’s senior journalist in the Northern Cape since 2020. She has covered stories such as the sensational Pofadder murder of Leon Brits, the Hartswater triple farm murders, the Kalahari tragedy, and many others that have shaken the country over the past few years.