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Idols singer conscious - Loyiso Bala

Cape Town - Chad Saaiman will make a full recovery, Loyiso Bala has confirmed.

Bala, who landed in Cape Town on Monday morning for auditions for a singing competition, confirmed to Channel24 that Saaiman's doctors expect him to make a full recovery.

Bala said: "The doctors say he'll make a full recovery. He's off the ventilator and conscious."

Saaiman was shot in the stomach at around 18:00 on Sunday in a botched hijacking while driving near Louis Botha Avenue in Johannesburg. He had reportedly just left Bala's house after a braai.

Bala told Cape Town radio station Heart FM, "If I knew he was going to Louis Botha, I would have warned him."

Saaiman was admitted to ICU earlier on Monday and is recovering in the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital. 
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