An impoverished Felekisi family’s woes continue after their home burnt down late on Saturday night, 20 June.
The Mzimela family featured in the Sun recently when a call to help went out to the community to help bury their 16-year-old son, Njabulo, who died after falling five metres from an avocado tree in Hillside Road in March.
Due to his family not being able to afford a funeral for him, he was only buried a month later, thanks to the kindhearted generosity of the Toti community.
According to his sister Ntombi, she went to the house to fetch food on Saturday night and returned to her aunt’s house and all was fine.
“Within an hour, another aunt phoned me to say our house was on fire,” she said.
The mud and corrugated structure completely burnt out. Fortunately her grandparents were the only ones in the house at the time and they escaped unharmed. The children were sleeping at a neighbour’s house.
The family of seven – three adults and four children aged 1, 3, 12 and 14-years-old – have lived on the property for the past 20 years.
They said they could smell petrol around the house immediately after the fire and the smell still lingered on Sunday.
They have been put up by their neighbours, but they are in a desperate situation, having lost all their clothes, food and identity documents.
If you can help, contact Ntombi on 078-688-6488.
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