KHENSANI Khoza (30) is lucky to be alive.
But she won’t easily forget the night of hell when she was stuck in a broken sewerage drain.
Khensani, from Ivory Park 3 in Tembisa, Ekurhuleni said she fell into the drain when she was coming home from visiting a friend at about 10pm on Wednesday.
She said she made a mistake when she tried to walk around the drain.
“I fell straight into the hole up to my shoulders. I screamed but nobody came to my rescue. Both my hands were stuck in the hole.
“I thought I was going to die. I was worried about what would happen to my child.” She said after an hour she was cold and battling to breathe. Just when she was ready to give up, she felt the strong hands of a stranger.
“I heard him saying, ‘are you okay’, but I couldn’t speak. He pulled me out of the drain and asked me where I lived.
“He picked me up and knocked at the door of my home.
“My family poured water and I had a bath. By then the stranger had left,” said Khensani.
Residents said the drain has been broken since last Thursday. They said they reported the drain, but it has not been fixed.
Themba Gadebe, spokesman for the Ekurhuleni Municipality, said the drains become blocked when people threw things into them.
He said they were working to fix the broken drain.
