On a Tuesday afternoon in Katlehong, South Africa, veteran sports broadcaster Owen Ndlovu drove to collect his wife from church and did not come home. Three armed men seized him from his vehicle, and by the following morning his body had been found on a roadside in a neighboring township. His death at fifty-four is both a personal tragedy and a mirror held up to a nation where thousands of lives are lost each quarter to organized, heavily armed criminal violence — a crisis that government pledges have yet to meaningfully contain.
South African sports broadcaster Owen Ndlovu found dead hours after abduction
Owen Ndlovu, a 54-year-old veteran broadcaster, was abducted and killed with gunshot wounds during a carjacking while collecting his wife from church.