Sparrow makes a duck as threats extend to bombing

10 January 2016 - 02:00
By MATTHEW SAVIDES

Retired estate agent Penny Sparrow has gone to ground as the fallout continues over racist comments made on Facebook in which she called black people "monkeys". Sparrow, 68, has left her Scottburgh home on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast and has been staying with friends because of rape and death threats received via phone and text message.

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