Legal battle brews over Joburg teen’s amputated hand

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“Since the incident in January 2022, the owners of the building have not assisted my son or helped with medical bills,” the mother said.

The boy, then 11, was rushed to hospital after his left hand was slashed by a piece of glass that fell from the fifth floor of a building in Joubert Park.His hand was later amputated as “it was hanging from a few tissues”, his mother, Charity Sibanda, said.

“We had to wait for the department of health to share copies of the medical records and are proceeding with instructions to sue for damage.” “It is the under standing of the undersigned that fragments of glass fell from the fifth floor as a result of a window pane that broke when a side-hung window sash was slammed shut by a gust of wind,” the report read.

 

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