He didn’t expect ever to see the woman and her three kids again but never forgot them – how could he erase that dramatic day from his memory?
Yet it would take 33 years and a serious health condition before Francis Cloete took action to find the answers he’d long wanted.
Francis (49), a pastor and founder of a mission outreach programme, recently posted a cutting of a community newspaper article on Facebook that told the story of what had happened back in 1988.