disaster management
DRY taps cost a Tongaat man his life, and his pensioner “mother” was left with only the clothes on her back after their home was gutted by a fire on Friday morning.
Despite two fire extinguishers in the low-cost housing complex, Renuka Singh, 78, of Pension Cottage, in Plane Street, was helpless to contain the fire because there was no water at the time.
Singh’s “son”, Steven Govender, 59, died of smoke inhalation and extensive burns.
Govender had moved out of his Buffelsdale home, where he lived with his wife and children, after a domestic
