Church structure blown away

Mohau Ramashidja

Thembi Vilakazi of Block KK in Soshanguve

points at a church structure which fell on

her house last week Friday. 

Shalom Christian Church is left without a church structure after their structure has been in existence for four weeks.

This comes after last week’s Friday strong winds which blew the church structure away to fall on top of the two homes which were opposite where it stood.

 

From the early hours of 10am, community members in block KK picked up what was left of the crunch up corrugated iron of Shalom Christian Church.

Today Shalom find themselves without a church structure after four weeks it has been in existence.

 “It is about four weeks since we had this church structure. Before that we were gathering in a tent for our church services. It’s a great loss for us because the whole structure cost us approximately R36 000 to build,” said the pastor’s wife Khanya Ndlovu.

Elizabeth Khoza was in her house when she suddenly heard a violent crash on top of her roof. “I was from work when the wind blew out of control. It was few minutes after I had entered the house when I heard a violent crash on top of my roof.

My house is badly damaged. The windows are broken and there is a huge crack on it that might cost me to rebuild the house if the crack is beyond repair,” she said.

While Khoza managed to come out of her house; her neighbour’s daughter Dimpho Vilakazi found herself trapped in her home after the church structure had landed on top of it.

“I was in the house when I saw the roof crashing in. I was trapped inside for a while until my neighbours came to help me out,” she said.

To repair the overall damages on the two homes, the church said it was willing to provide assistance where needed.

 Amongst their plans the church said it was to speak with the ward councillor to come up with other arrangements to solve this problem. The ward councillor and the Tshwane Metro were not available for comment.