Nobude Ngqola is 82 years old and lives in a leaking shack with her eight children. She has been terrified to leave her home ever since she heard about the Covid-19 coronavirus
We talk inside the tiny three-room shack that the 82-year-old gogo shares with her eight children and grandchildren. Seated on a worn-out sofa sipping tea, Ngqola says she has been terrified to leave her shack ever since she first heard news of the spread of Covid-19. “But many of our neighbours still rely on imbawula to stay warm despite all its dangers,” says Adonis.Ngqola says back in her day there were no deadly diseases like Covid-19. “We only heard tales from our grandparents about a deadly flu disease that claimed many lives some years ago,” she recalls.
Now, 33 years later and still living in an informal settlement where there are limited basic services, Ngqola has to share an outside tap and toilet with dozens of her neighbours. With the Covid-19 pandemic ravaging the Western Cape, Ngqola lives in constant fear of contracting the disease, mostly because her living arrangements are particularly dire for someone her age.Ngqola’s fears are not misplaced. People over the age of 80 years and those with chronic diseases have been shown to be most vulnerable to Covid-19.
Recently Ngqola was among 10 families who benefitted from food parcels donated by former Cape Town City stars Mark Mayambela and Ayanda Patosi, who both grew up in Khayelitsha. The organisation operates 21 Ikamva Labantu Seniors Clubs around Cape Town’s township neighbourhoods but had to stop on March 17 as a precautionary measure to ensure social distancing.When approached for comment on what the department is doing to safeguard older people like Ngqola in township communities, Mark van der Heever, spokesperson for the department of health in the Western Cape referred Spotlight to the Western Cape department of social development.
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Something is not adding up about this story. Is it me or we have poor and lays journalist in South Africa?
Plight of the gogo aside. 8 grown up kids who have kids themselves living with their mom! Non of them has a job or hustle somewhere? And that is supposed to be our problem?
82 years uhlala with her 8 Children👀 So how old are these children? Abekho bona abazukulwana nesizukulwana?
With our own race in government. Millions financed sun City wedding. Billions spend on prisoner catering.
How old are her 'children'? It's the 'children's 'turn to look after her, she did her best by building tht shack, they must get her a proper house. Not everything should be on government's hands pls!
SA today.
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