A nurse has died from injuries sustained while trying to save her car during an explosion.
Susan Matlakala Maxakaza, 55, was reported dead from a gas explosion that happened in Boksburg.
Susan, a mother of two who had been working as a nurse at Tambo Memorial Hospital for more than 20 years, was among those transferred to Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital on the 24th of December, but she succumbed to her injuries on Monday.
She died while trying to save her car which caught fire. (Image: Rorisang Kgosana)
While pointing at the melted paintwork on the car and the shattered windows, Keamogetswe said he wished his mother had been less concerned about her car at that moment.
“She heard the explosion, and that’s when she went outside to move her car.” Then another explosion happened. “She could have just left this thing, and then she would have still been here,” he said.
“Words cannot describe how I feel. I feel numb. It is my family that is keeping me strong because this is really hard. We knew that one day she would be gone, but not like this. “We are still so traumatized.” “Honestly, I don’t have much to say.”
Susan worked as a nurse for over 20 years.
Also speaking on the unfortunate incident, her daughter Gontse, 22, said:
“I thought it was a normal day and that she was coming back until someone came to tell us she was involved in the explosion. They said she just got burned until I saw her at the Johannesburg General Hospital. I just saw a burnt person. “Her skin was off, but I was told that was my mother,” she said.
