One of Cwebeni village’s most senior citizens, 92-year-old Maswelekile Petshana, among the many village women living in abject poverty in dilapidated mud homes, has died without realising the dream of a proper house.She waited for 25 years for an RDP house to no avail.
One of Cwebeni village’s most senior citizens, 92-year-old Maswelekile Petshana, among the many village women living in poverty in dilapidated mud homes, has died without realising her dream of a proper house.
Children in the Eastern Cape are starving. So acute is the problem that desperate residents have begged the country’s president and the province’s premier to intervene.On Wednesday, health MEC Nomakhosazana Meth’s spokesperson, Mkhululi Ndamase, said that between April 2021 and September 2023 about 3,070 Eastern Cape children were treated for acute malnutrition and 1,314 were admitted to hospital for acute malnutrition.