Marius Vlam van der Merwe knew he was living on borrowed time.
The man South Africa knew only as witness D at the Madlanga commission had escaped two previous assassination attempts before he was shot dead in cold blood in his driveway in Brakpan on Friday night. One of those attempts was just two weeks ago.
His devastated family told the Sowetans sister publication, Sunday Times on Saturday that he had warned them in recent weeks that someone was out to kill him.
