It was pain, shock and tears when Phaphamani woman Thembakazi Mofu saw a Makana Municipality trailer plunge into her house on Wednesday 23 October.
It was pain, shock and tears when Phaphamani woman Thembakazi Mofu saw a Makana Municipality trailer plunge into her house on Wednesday 23 October.
Mofu said that she was talking to her children and some insurance salespeople when a trailer was unhitched from a Makana water truck and started rolling towards her house.
"I went to my room for a minute, I heard people screaming and I went on to look on the window, it was a trailer coming straight to my house," she explained. "It happened that my children saw the trailer and ran away from the sitting room."
Nobody was injured in the accident, but Mofu's furniture and appliances – including a table with four chairs, a four-burner stove, a kettle, a washing machine, a door and pots – were destroyed.
Mofu, who was hardly able to speak to the Grocott's Mail reporter out of shock, found it difficult to picture her future in the now-destroyed house.
"How am I going to handle all of this?" she asked with tears in her eyes.
Eyewitness Andile Nayika said that he was going to the shop when he saw the trailer rolling backwards while the truck was moving forwards.
"I saw a trailer running from the street straight to Mama Mofu's house," he said. "People were screaming and running away from the road when that trailer was going down the street."
He added that the trailer destroyed first the fence, then the gate and finally the whole front wall of the house.
Although distraught, Mofu was very relieved that there were no injuries.
"All of my children have survived, we have managed and I thank God for protecting us from this chaotic moment," she said. All attempts Grocott's Mail has made to get a response from Makana Municipality Spokeperson Mncedisi Boma have been unsuccessful.
