Birdswood gunshot victim is walking miracle
Tough Gawie Stoltz, bites the bullet.
THEY call him ‘the man with the bullet-proof body’.
He says he is ‘surrounded by angels’.
Gawie Stoltz (39), who was shot twice during a robbery in Birdswood on 7 April, not only survived the close call, but was out of hospital in just four days.
One bullet entered his left cheek and exited through his neck, while the other penetrated his chest and is still lodged in his rib cage after surgeons decided it would be too dangerous to remove the slug.
This is not a first for Gawie, as 10 years ago he was wounded in a drive-by shooting in Alton and that bullet remains in his left shoulder to this day.
At least 11 shots were fired at Gawie in the Birdswood attack, after he went out to investigate noises in his yard.
‘There were three of them and they were apparently using my yard as an escape route after earlier entering and robbing another home in the suburb.
‘Ironically, I had donated blood the week before, but in much friendlier circumstances!’
Gawie is grateful to his friend Leon Vorster, who raced him to Netcare The Bay Hospital, and to the doctor and staff at the casualty department who stabilised him before he was taken to Ngwelezana Hospital.
‘I was given excellent care at Ngelezana, for which I am grateful.
‘I also thank my wife, Shannon and family and friends, the Birdswood CPF and all those who prayed for me.’
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