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Speculation is rife that two of the passengers travelling in actor Rapulana Seiphemos car when it
crashed in Johannesburg last Sunday night were hijackers, the Sunday Independent reported
yesterday.
The accident left three people dead, including a passenger in Seiphemos car, and the actor critically
injured. Seiphemo plays Tau Mogale in the SABC1 soapie Generations: The Legacy.
The newspaper reported that one of the passengers in Seiphemos car is currently under heavy police
guard after attempting to escape from hospital, fuelling rumours that the two passengers,
apparently strangers to the driver, were trying to hijack him.
George W. Bush awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Harper Lee in 2007.(Larry
Downing/Reuters)
United States President Barack Obama is among those who have paid tribute to To Kill a
Mockingbird novelist Harper Lee.
Lee, who passed away on Friday at the age of 89, was called a country girl who just wanted to tell an
honest story about life as she saw it by the Obama family, in a statement.
But what that one story did, more powerfully than one hundred speeches possibly could, was change
the way we saw each other, and then the way we saw ourselves.
Oprah Winfrey confessed that Lee was one of the interviews she had failed to get
Harper Lee my 1st favorite author! I always wanted to interview her. She said honey I already said
everything I had to say. #RIPHarperLee
Oprah Winfrey (@Oprah) February 19, 2016
Fellow auhorStephen King celbrated her generosity tweeting:
Lets celebrate the life of Harper Lee, who wrote an American classic and helped her friend Truman
Capote write another.
Stephen King (@StephenKing) February 19, 2016
LeesGo Set A Watchman was released in 2015.
Novelist live-tweets her #FeesMustFall arrest as it happens