Tšabana David Senoko shared a moving story about his roadside disaster and how he was assisted by an incredible group of Samaritans. It’s stories like these that remind us how incredible South Africans are.
Tšabana David Senoko and his family were headed home after the long weekend when they hit a serious pothole. He managed to get the car safely off the road and started to work on changing the tyre. It was pitch black outside and he felt his family were in a dangerous situation.
Moving as quickly as he could, he worked on the tyre but things got worse, he was having some serious trouble. Unable to remove the tyre, he turned to the road in the hopes that someone would stop and assist him.
Finally, a family of Good Samaritans stopped and assisted the stranded family. Read Tšabana David Senoko beautiful story below.
“I have always believed and often tell people in discussions that there are more good people than there are bad ones. Yesterday I was driving back from Ladybrand to Boksburg with my wife, our little ones and Palesa, my young sister-in-law. We were having a good trip until I hit a big pothole while trying to avoid another one on my lane.”
“This happened in the middle of nowhere between Lindley and Petrus Steyn. It was a big pothole. The front right wheel was shredded. I managed to bring the vehicle under control and stopped on the side of the road to change the wheel. I took out my spare wheel, jack and wheel spanner. The rain began to drizzle and it was dark.”
“With my wife assisting with cellphone flashlight, I managed to loosen out only four nuts. The fifth one was very tight. And unfortunately, my spanner strapped badly. I had no choice but to try and get help from other motorists. But as it turned out, no one wanted to stop in the middle of nowhere in the dark of the night and risk being robbed, carjacked or worse – get killed.”
“At that moment my 5-year-old daughter had started crying saying she was scared of darkness. I felt terrible. Had I been a bit more cautious maybe that couldn’t have happened. I thought to myself. Almost an hour later a miracle happened, we tried one last time to stop another vehicle. And to our relief, the vehicle stopped about 600 meters from us, did u-turn and came to stop opposite us.”
“The good Samaritans were Theunis Taljaard and his family, Centurion residents. They graciously offered to assist us with their wheel spanner. Unfortunately, theirs was a size 19 whereas I needed a size 17. Well, they didn’t just feel sorry and leave. They did a lot more than I could ask for.”
“Theunis called his friend – a farmer who lives a good kilometres away from where we were. Minutes later Dries Van Tonder arrived with his bakkie and together with Theunis’ son managed to assist us to replace the damaged wheel.”
“Now, this ladies and gentlemen is what Ubuntu is all about. A million thanks to Theunis, his son, and Dries. No amount of money would be enough to express our gratitude for the great kindness you have shown us. We arrived home safely just about midnight. Thank you and may the Lord bless you and your families.”
Tšabana David Senoko didn’t stop there. The comment section of his Facebook post was flooded with thankful and hopeful responses. He responded to many of the people encouraging him for promoting such a hopeful story. One of his comments stood out above the rest.
His views on the current climate in South Africa are not unique, he is one of the millions of South Africans that have hope and faith in our beautiful country. He shared this thought with a fellow commenter and we just had to share it with you. It is so wonderful to see so much love being shared.
“Some [Angels] don’t have wings and shiny apparel but they exist, and they live among us. And we met them last night. That’s why I keep on telling people that we cannot continue magnifying the racial tensions and ignore the fact that there are a lot of very good people in this country who have the best interests of the well being of society in large at heart.”
“It’s no small thing that strangers risked their lives, gave their time and resources to assist a complete stranger to them. There is so much good in all of us. There is that Ubuntu in all of us. There is so much love and care for one another. We can’t allow the weeds of hatred and negativity to cover and destroy such beautiful crop of humanness in each one of us. “umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu” A person is a person through other persons.”
We have chills! This is the most beautiful and positive thing we have ever read. Thank you for sharing it with the world Tšabana David Senoko.
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What a wonderful story of hope for our beautiful country…thank you for your positive message.