Police Minister Bheki Cele is expected to visit the families on Thursday.
Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu and Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu have paid their respects to the parents of four boys who died after falling into a hole while playing on a sand dune in Nyanga, Cape Town.
Sisulu and Zulu visited the families on Wednesday. They were accompanied by State Security Deputy Minister Zizi Kodwa. This tragedy must be a lesson to the municipality and the government of this metro that this must never happen again because if there was a children s park in this area, this incident would not have happened. It s important that [there are] children s parks in informal areas so that children do not have to play in the roads or in open graves. And this incident must be a lesson that no child must die because there s not sufficient space to play, Kodwa told reporters.
Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu has said her department has activated Sassa support for the families of four boys who died in a hole in Nyanga, Cape Town.
Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu has slammed the DA-led City of Cape Town and Western Cape government, following the death of four boys in Nyanga, Cape Town.
The family of Nqabayethu Mlaza, one of the four boys whose bodies were retrieved from a hole near the N2, has described him as a respectful and a humble boy who was full of life.
Family member of Borcherds Quarry sandpit tragedy speaks out
10 February 2021 9:23 AM
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Zama Mati, a local photographer, and relative of one of the four boys who died, was one of the first on the tragic scene.
Refilwe Moloto speaks to Zama Mati, a local photographer and relative of one of the four boys who died tragically in a sandpit along the N2 at Borcherds Quarry.
Mati was one of the first on the scene where the bodies of his relative Iva Kalikopu, 13, and friends Nqabayethu Mlaza, 12, Axolile Mambangula,11, and Azola Quweni, 13 were retrieved.
Mati describes how he received a call from one of his sisters on Tuesday afternoon around 2.30 pm telling him his cousin was in the sinkhole next to a field where children play.