Resident lucky to be alive after surviving sinkhole

Tired of seeing sinkholes mushrooming around his house, Caleb Magodiela decided to walk with a neighbour to the councillor’s home to inform him about the disaster.

Little did the 65-year-old know that, on the way, he would plunge into a sinkhole, injure himself, and languish there for two hours...

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