The siblings, Chrisley and Nathan Shikale, who will be buried tomorrow, lost their lives after the car they were travelling in crashed head-on into a truck along Auas Road near the Safari Court Hotel.
They were both 18.
The Namibian visited the brothers”; parents at home at Cimbebasia on Wednesday, where family, friends and well wishers were coming and going.
Diana and Samuel Shikale cannot believe their boys have died.
Diana is the brothers”; stepmother, and has raised them from a young age.
“That Friday, they came home early and I was in the shower at the time. They told their father they were hungry, and they wanted something special . . . something special is normally pizza or fish and chips.
“Their father said since your mother is also hungry, take this N$150 and go buy chips at the service station .
“And that was it. After five or 10 minutes or so, we got a call that our boys were involved in a car accident at Safari,” Diana said.
“As parents, we thought it”;s okay, we may find the police standing around the boys being questioned.
“When we arrived, the road was already blocked, so we couldn”;t get through. So Samuel said we must go to the other side of the park, because the accident was near the park.
“When we went a bit closer, we saw a picture we will never forget. We saw our boys stuck in the car. When the police realised we were their parents, they took us a bit further not to witness the whole scene.
“But one could see one of them was still alive, because he was on a drip. I would say Nathan passed on first. Chrisley was still fighting, but he did not make it either.”
Diana said she has been inconsolable since.
“Those boys were my everything. I met them when they were very young. I taught them what love is. I taught them to be responsible men one day when they grow up. They were lively and respectful,” she said.
Samuel this week said: “They were my friends. Seeing them grow up, we got so attached. We were buddies. I am so empty.”
INSEPARABLE
The couple says Chrisley and Nathan were inseparable.
“They loved each other, worked together, and stayed together,” Diana said.
Their father said they were always in each other”;s company.
“They could even stay in their room the whole day. When one went to the sitting room, the other would follow. That”;s how close they were.”
DREAMS
Although they were close, the brothers had different personalities and aspirations.
Chrisley was the playful one, Samuel said.
“He was so well-known, even those homeless guys knew him. Chrisley would take his soccer ball to a park near Amazing Kids school, and would collect the boys in the neighbourhood to play soccer.
“Nathan would be sitting on the sofa watching television. He didn”;t play soccer, and he was more into cars, he loved cars,” he said.
Chrisley was in Grade 12 at Combretum Trust School.
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