Seboke Seboke
Channel: BackaBuddy
Date: 2019-12-18

Seboke is the man who lost his life during the flash floods in Centurion on Monday morning 9 December 2019, at Mushroomville.  Mushroomville is an informal settlement of the Bagarezie (informal recyclers).  

On Monday morning at 2:00 am flash floods went  through the compound which was situated next to the Hennops  river opposite Supersport Park.  At 7:00 am the entire compound was washed away and was completely flooded to such an extent that some of the people needed to be rescued from the trees.  The people were gathered at gate 3 at Supersport Park where a headcount was done and it was discovered that Seboke Seboke was missing.  His body was found inside his shack on Tuesday morning after the water subsided and the Police did a walkabout.

The first purpose of this crowdfunding is to collect funds to return Seboke Seboke’s body and family to Lesotho to be able to give him a dignified funeral.  His family is unable to transport his body back to Lesotho due to financial constraints.  Seboke Seboke was the family’s breadwinner.

The second purpose of the crowdfunding is to raise funds to get the remaining 88 Bargarezie back their homes and families for the festive season. Due to the fact that the Bargarezie is currently relocated to a community hall in Lyttleton, they have no means of collecting nor selling products so they have no income and no means for paying for their transport.

The costs have been calculated and are in the region of R400 per person for travelling by bus and taxi.

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