The New Age reports that Nkangala Fire division chief Maggie Machete says an investigation will follow the death of one of their rescue workers who died while trying to save a passenger from a minibus taxi.  

The vehicle was swept away at Kwaggafontein in Mpumalanga on Saturday.  Firefighter Jerry Mogoe, 31, was in the strong currents flooding the Mohlabetsi River when his safety cable snapped.  His body and that of passenger Engeline Msiza, 26 were retrieved on the same day.  “The deceased was one of our firefighters and managed to rescue the driver of the taxi.  One of the other firefighters tried to rescue the other passenger and that’s where everything went wrong,” Machete said.  The recent heavy rains wreaked havoc in many parts of the country and Mpumalanga was one of the provinces swept by the deluge.

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