Evelyn Masuvhelele keeps her young children busy with reading and drawing during the day. Her family of 10 live in a shack with only two rooms.“Practising good hygiene and following physical distancing rules is impossible for my family,” 47-year-old Evelyn Masuvhelele said.
She said when her daughter-in-law started coughing last week she panicked because she wondered whether the cough was Covid-19-related. “We cook here and sleep here,” she said, pointing at a room divided by two beds and a two-seater couch. She said a lockdown day for her involved walking to a tap and standing in a queue to get water, and sending some of her children to try to charge her cellphone and buy bread.
The worried woman pleaded for government to help reduce overcrowding in informal settlements for the sake of people's health.
Sad situation there and this one needs government intervention
But yet in our beloved country we supply Gold, diamonds, aluminum,platinum but our people staying in such conditions this what real break's my heart.
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