ActionSA president Herman Mashaba wants the eThekwini municipality to be charged for the death of a Newlands mother, after her oxygen machine could not function following their electricity being disconnected for being in arrears. Mashaba met 63-year-old Rosemary Frank's family at their home in Durban to inform them that his party had instructed a lawyer to pursue the matter, says a TimesLIVE report.
“I heard about this case and I got angry. The family must get justice, so we will take on this matter… The municipality must be held responsible.”
Frank's daughter, Loreal, explained that on 25 March she had begged municipal workers to give her five minutes to allow the generator to switch on so her mother's oxygen machine would be able to work. Frank was dependent on the machine as she suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
The family told Mashaba that Frank had died minutes after the electricity was disconnected.