Dad’s fire pain: Why wasn’t even one kid saved?

04 June 2019 - 08:00
By Lwandile Bhengu and Bongani Mthethwa
Siphiwe Maduna looks in disbelief at the bed where his nieces and nephew burnt to death.
Image: Thuli Dlamini Siphiwe Maduna looks in disbelief at the bed where his nieces and nephew burnt to death.

When he heard that his four little children had burnt to death, Zamani Thwala had one question.

As he looked at the charred room where they died, fighting through tears, he says all he could do was ask their mother why she couldn’t save even one.