Pimville woman finds house engulfed in flames
It has been a month and the house is in a bad state especially for a senior citizen with health problems, the family is asking for any form of donations.
There’s nothing worse than watching your house go down in flames. All that remains of Pimville Zone 2 woman, Monica Mafeka (66)’s home is burned up halls and ashes of furniture.
Mafeka headed home two weeks ago when she received a disturbing message from her neighbours saying that her house is on fire.
“Coming back, I saw a fire brigade on the way, but I never thought it was going to my house, and then came one woman who told me that my house was on fire and I asked how? I was shaking, I thought of my clothes, my furniture and everything else in my house, and then I finally got home to be welcomed by smoke and flames, I felt so defeated, there was a lot of people outside my house, “says Mafeka.
She suspects that the cause of the fire might be the heater that she left on as she thought that she was going out just for a while, unfortunately, the incident happened so quickly during those few minutes she was out.
Mafeka is allegedly suffering from Asthma and when the Pimville Urban reporter interviewed her, she was struggling to speak up. She stays with her 25-year-old grandson, Neo Mafeka, whose mother was killed when he was only 3 months old allegedly by her partner.
The house furniture, roofing, the house doesn’t get warm anymore, windows, as well as the doors, were burned. Neo also lost his computer and laptop, which he says he had stored some important information in.
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Mafeka said that the most unfortunate part was that she had locked the door and the community had to break the asbestos to enter the house and douse down the flames.
South African National Civic Organisation (SANCO) Mpete Mosaka Ward 22 Branch stepped in, finding ways to assist Mafeka.
On Wednesday, May 1, the organisation held a meeting at Hlalefang Primary School in Zone 2, with some of the nearby residents, to try and come up with solutions to assist Mafeka and residents were willing to help with one of the suggestions being to donate whatever they can to this family of two.
Mafeka said that Kennys Bricks donated two buckets of paint to her and one of her neighbours helped with a window, while her grandson has been trying to fix the electricity connection as it was also damaged during the fire and she said that she appreciates the assistance she is receiving.
It has been a month and the house is in a bad state especially for a senior citizen with health problems, the family is asking for any form of donations.
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