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Pretoria
businessman Derick Goosen got a surprising call from warrant
officer Kwakwa Ntokola two weeks ago about a gray 1988 Toyota
Corolla, the Afrikaans newspaper Beeld reported.
Goosen had reported the car stolen back in 1993 but it turned up
only last year when police seized a vehicle at a roadblock in
the northern province of Limpopo after noticing that its engine
number had been scratched off.
Ntokola, "a true policeman", then managed to reconstruct the
number and eventually traced the owner to Pretoria, police
Colonel Ronel Otto told Reuters.
"I'm going to wash it and drive around in it," Goosen told the
Afrikaans. "Everything inside is still in perfect order. I can't
believe it."
(Reporting by TJ Strydom; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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