Gardener John Manda pulled an elderly man from a burning car in Rooiels, Western Cape, last week. | GroundUp_News
Carel van Biljon, who lost the use of his legs after a stroke, was trapped in the passenger seat of his car after the exhaust caught fire.Manda, who was working nearby, saw the cloud of dark smoke and rushed to the scene to pull Carel van Biljon from the car.
Suddenly, the engine cut out, the car stopped, and smoke started billowing from the boot. Mitzi got out of the car and opened the boot, where she saw flames coming from the exhaust. She shouted for help. Carel was trapped in the car.WATCH |Manda said he saw a cloud of dark smoke rising 200 metres away from where he was working. He rushed to the scene to find a car on fire.
Manda, who comes from the Nkhata Bay district in the northern region of Malawi, has been in South Africa for eight years. Tragedy struck him last year when he lost his small daughter. And this year, Cyclone Freddy destroyed part of his house in Malawi, where his wife lives.Man rescues 9 trapped miners in the DRC with his bare hands
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