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NATIONAL NEWS: VIDEO: Search for Gert van Rooyen victims continue

This is the second time police have excavated in Blythedale, after they discovered that paedophile Gert Van Rooyen and his female accomplice Joey Haarhoff had spent a weekend there.

A SAPS forensic team yesterday began excavating a site on Blythedale Beach thought to be a burial site for girls kidnapped by paedophile Gert van Rooyen in the 1980s.

As day two of the excavation continues, Editor of The Courier, Bruce Stephenson, interviews Alet Wright, the executive producer of SATV programme, Fokus, who initiated the latest dig.

Watch the video here>

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