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‘Mama, mama!’ Anguish as family dies in fire

24 July 2019 - 08:00 By NONKULULEKO NJILO
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Five people, including three children, were killed in a house fire in Meyerton, near Johannesburg, on Monday.
Five people, including three children, were killed in a house fire in Meyerton, near Johannesburg, on Monday.
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Penny Mvundla dropped her half-loaf of bread on the stoep of her burning home and desperately screamed out: “Mama, mama!”

But her calls were in vain. Her parents, Sibongile and Thomas Strauss, her two children and her brother would die in the blaze.

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