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Virginia Keppler, Beeld

Pretoria - An embittered mother whose sons had both been shot dead says she'll search for the killers if the police don't want to do it.

Roseline Ramazan of Eersterust east of Pretoria, whose wheelchair-bound son, Lucien Stuurman, 27, was shot dead in their neighbourhood on Friday night, said: "I'll go and search for the murderers myself."

She said: "This is my second child that I've picked up dead in the streets.

"My other son (Henry Stuurman, 21,) was shot in 1996, and up to now his killers are still walking around free."

Lucien was with five friends when a group of men in a white Volkswagen Polo opened fire on them. He was hit in the neck, back and head.

'Cops know the shooters'

Ramazan called for an investigation by the police's "murder and robbery unit" into her son's killing.

"The Eersterust police know who the shooters are, but they've not yet arrested anyone.

"I'm a straight talker and I don't care what they think of me, because they didn't even have the decency to come to me after he was shot," she said.

She said her son was on his way home when the killers struck.

"I'm heartbroken, because he was in a wheelchair and he couldn't even defend himself."

"The people of Eersterust are grieving over this thing that's happened to my child.

"We bury children every second week, but the police never seem to catch their murderers," said Ramazan.