No pay-out for quake-related damages
KwaMbonambi residents claim damage to homes was caused by an earthquake in June this year.
AFTER suffering extensive earthquake damage to their homes, for which their insurance companies won’t pay, KwaMbonambi residents are looking for feedback from others in the greater area who are also suffering.
An earthquake rocked Zululand on the 16 June this year.
‘My house has cracked walls, burst water pipes and tented tiles,’ said one resident who asked not to be named.
‘The swimming pool at a house four doors down cracked, losing hundreds of litres of water, and other houses in KwaMbonambi have suffered similar damage’.
While the residents’ insurance companies have sent surveyors to assess the damages, they have allegedly refused to attribute the damages to the quake, saying it was impossible for the 4.3 magnitude earthquake to have affected KwaMbonambi.
The resident said she would understand if the problems arose before the quake, or had accumulated over time, but everybody’s damages occurred as a result of the quake on 16 June. Since then, it has been an uphill battle to claim on insurance for the damages.
The epicentre of the 4.3 magnitude earthquake was 34km east of Sundumbili near Mandini and was felt as far away as Durban and inland towards Pietermaritzburg.
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