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Paralysed car smash victim to get millions

RAF agrees to pay him out after initially offering a mere R25 000 Pretoria News 3 Mar 2015 ZELDA VENTER HIGH COURT REPORTER Petrus Taje is to receive a multi-million rand payout from the Road Accident Fund after an accident left him paralysed. A FORMER miner left paralysed following a car accident in 2006, will, thanks to the intervention of lawyers, receive a multi-million rand payout from the Road Accident Fund (RAF), which initially offered him a mere R25 000. Petrus Taje, 40, has been living in a home for the disabled in Bloemfontein for nine years since the accident and had to make do with a disability grant. Following the settlement which was yesterday made an order of the High Court sitting in Pretoria, an elated Taje said he could now make life easier for himself. The first thing on his list is to buy his own home and

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