Fire destroys house in Lwamondo

The Lufhugu family in Lwamondo outside Thohoyandou is still nursing their shock after a mysterious fire completely gutted their nine-roomed house.

The fire was reported around Thursday (5 August) and burnt down the house and all its contents, worth hundreds of thousands of rands, as nothing was saved in the house. The whole tiled roof caved in because of the severity of the inferno.

Mr Nndwakhulu Mbulaheni, the newly elected councillor for Ward 34 in Thulamela and one of the first people to arrive at the house, said he received a call from one of the residents about the fire at around 14:00. "I rushed there and found firefighters fighting the blaze, but there was nothing they could save as the fire had spread rapidly all over the house. As a community, we are greatly saddened as granny Tshinakaho Lufhugu stayed there with three young children, while the owners of the house are working far away in Gauteng.”

He added that they were very thankful that no one was hurt in the fire.

At the house, granny Tshinakaho was crying uncontrollably, saying her money and all her belongings had been destroyed in the fire. "I am left with only what I am wearing, a lot of money that I kept for the club has been burnt and I do not know how I will repay that money," she said. The granny was taken to the hospital to be treated for shock.

Luckily the money was later found in the house and only a R100 note was partly burnt. The granny and her three grandchildren are presently staying with relatives.

Date:18 August 2016

By: Elmon Tshikhudo

Elmon Tshikhudo started off as a photographer. He developed an interest in writing and started submitting articles to local as well as national publications. He became part of the Limpopo Mirror family in 2005 and was a permanent part of the news team until 2019.

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