Guns, booze, rednecks and traffic cops don’t mix (well)

Luke Fairweather, an ex-Western Province cricketer who also managed a Western Province youth cricket team, was shot by a traffic officer on January 5, and later died as a result. While tributes have been forthcoming from friends as well as cricket officials, the circumstances of his death, as well as his professed racist views, should not be discounted as possible contributors to his being shot.