BUT you’re women! Are you telling us you can clean up bloody crime scenes? That was the reaction of sceptical police and security staff when they first crossed paths with Eileen de Jager (39) and Roelien Schutte (37). Yet 15 years and about 7 000 crime scenes later, Crime Scene Cleanup, the business these two sisters run, is still going strong.
‘It’s upsetting to see the faces of the dead in your mind’s eye’ These days Eileen and her husband, Francois, are based in Ballito, KwaZulu-Natal, while Roelien and her colleague, Belinda Brand, have settled in Annlin in Pretoria and serve that part of the country.
And they’ve yet to have a dissatisfied client. Their book, Blood Sisters, was a bestseller (Sisters in crime, YOU, 22 September 2011). And now…