Women mourn the death of a family member, who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), outside a crematorium in New Delhi, India. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
South African families spending sleepless nights worried about their loved ones in India as Covid-19 tsunami continues to rage
By Tanya Waterworth, Sameer Naik
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As death surges across India, overwhelming mortuaries and filling makeshift pyres, South African families are spending sleepless nights worried about their loved ones as they fight to survive the Covid-19 tsunami.
In Kempton Park, on the East Rand, Eaizaan Mohammed, an Indian national, is worried about his family in Delhi who he has learnt may have Covid-19.
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Almost 80% of South Africans speak one of the SEB family languages as their first language. Their origins can be traced to farmers of West-Central Africa whose descendants over the past two millennia spread south of the equator and finally into Southern Africa.
Since then, varying degrees of sedentism [the practice of living in one place for a long time], population movements and interaction with Khoe and San communities, as well as people speaking other SEB languages, ultimately generated what are today distinct Southern African languages such as isiZulu, isiXhosa and Sesotho.
Despite these linguistic differences, these groups are treated mostly as a single group in genetic studies.