Former cabinet minister and ambassador Dr Piet Koornhof has been cremated in Stellenbosch in what was apparently a hush-hush service. News 24 reports.
This follows reports that Koornhof’s fomer girlfriend. Marcelle Adams who was planning to fly to Cape Town from Germany cancelled her plans yesterday afternoon after learning of the cremation the report said.
However. Dr Gerhard Koornhof his eldest son told Die Burger on Wednesday: "There was nothing secret about it and no one was excluded. It was a practical arrangement that we made to give everyone an opportunity."
"I phoned Johan (Koornhof’s youngest son) and told him I was running around to lay everything to go to Cape Town because I wanted to pay my last respects to Piet.
"He said the service had taken place on Wednesday. I was very disappointed to hear that," the inform quoted Adams from Bad Endorf in Germany.
Adams said she had told Koornhof’s twin 10-year-old sons. Danie and Samuel about their father’s death after finding it too difficult to do so on Tuesday.
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