A Western Cape family is grieving for a young mother who survived a car crash in Namibia on Thursday but died when the light plane carrying her from the wreck to hospital smashed into a nearby mountain.
Charmaine Williams, 34, of Somerset West, worked for the Worldwide Fund for Nature and had been in Namibia to attend a conference.
She was the only survivor when the car rolled in the Gamsberg pass, about 170km outside Windhoek.
Two other South Africans were killed.
'Everything she did was for her daughter' Williams used her cellphone to call for help and was put aboard a light plane but it too crashed, killing Williams, pilot Giovanni "John" Branca and two medical staff. The cause of the crash is not yet known.
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Williams' mother Ann Kolbe, with whom she and her daughter Michaela, 13, lived in Somerset West, said:
"Charmaine was very outgoing, very fond of nature. Friends of hers have pitched up here (to share the grief of the family), people I don't even know. Some said she just waved at them or made an effort to assist them. It was so nice.
"Everything she did was for her daughter. That is what she lived for. She was vibrant, full of life and a very spiritual person."
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This article was originally published on page 5 of Cape Times on June 30, 2003
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