UPDATE: Two families get the support they need most
Two families whose homes were destroyed in a fire get help from the police and the community.
More donations are arriving at the doorsteps of the two families who lost everything they owned in a fire.
The generous donations were made by the police, #Notinmyname and the community at large.
The first fire victims are the Aphane family from Mamelodi East, Extension 17 informal settlement who lost everything they owned in a fire after a candle fell over and set their shack alight in Mamelodi.
And in another incident, a little boy accidentally set the family house alight in Nellmapius Extension 4 house while playing with a box of matches.
Over the weekend the members of #Notinmyname visited the Aphane family in Mamelodi again to bring more donations and to see how they were coping.
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Zoey Masuku Mabasa of #Notinmyname said they donated more clothes.
She said she personally donated achest of drawers, two wooden doors for the house, carpets and warm blankets.
However, the aim of the visit was to check up on the family on how they were coping.
She said she was happy that the structure is standing and the family has almost everything they need to get back to their feet.
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Other items were later donated by SAPS Women’s network and Men for Change to both families such as food parcels, toiletries and clothes on Monday and they were accompanied by Brigadier Lungisa Tshayane of Mamelodi West police station.
Mmaphefo Aphane said they really appreciated what the community had done for them and it should not end with them and they must continue doing well for the community.
SAPS Women’s network and Men for Change also visited the Hlatswayo family in Nellmapius to deliver food, toiletries and clothes.
Warrant officer Eric Fokazi of SAPS Men for Change said together with SAPS Women’s Network it was their duty to give back to the community.
While Brigadier Lungisa Tshayane of Mamelodi West police station said that besides being in police uniforms the police officers were human beings.
The donations made by the police came from the police personally after they have heard about the incidents that happened to the two families.
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