Rodgers: Sinister act believed to be behind fire at DA councillor’s home
The Democratic Alliance in KZN says its councillor, Michael Buthelezi, remains in a critical condition in hospital after losing his wife and three children in a fire at their Bergville home.
The blaze is said to have broken out in the early hours of Sunday at their homestead in Bethany.
Buthelezi's wife and two daughters lost their lives that morning.
His son, who was hospitalised, succumbed to his injuries in the evening.
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"I have been to the homestead, and it is not an electrical fire. and having engaged with councillor Michael Buthelezi in the hospital, he tells me that there were two explosions at about 2 o'clock on Sunday morning and that started the fire," says DA's KZN leader Francios Rodgers.
"So, it would seem as though something more sinister caused the fire and the terrible deaths of his wife and his three children."
Rodgers says they'll be writing to the Provincial police commissioner to urgently investigate.
