The case of a widow, Marisa Oosthuizen, in whose favour the high court in Bloemfontein made a ruling just last month, is one of many stories of people who lost everything because of Sharemax. In her case, there was at least some respite. Oosthuizen was left to look after her two-year-old son alone after her husband, a Western Cape farmer, was killed in a shooting incident. His life insurance policy paid out R3.4m, of which she chose to invest R2m for the future.
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