The past week saw the Portuguese Forum South Africa urging people via social media to sign an online petition against the granting of bail to several suspects arrested and accused of kidnapping well-known Louis Trichardt businessman Eddie Gouveia (51). Gouveia was kidnapped on 16 October this year. When the accused appeared in the Louis Trichardt Magistrate's Court on Tuesday, 17 December, almost 1,600 people had signed the online petition.
However, this was not the accused's first cou...