Tears flowed as nine triumphant Grandads were welcomed home on Sunday. The stringy Grandads Army troopers had pounded out 1,500km over 14 days to raise thousands of rand from an admiring public.
An estimated 2.6m Eastern Cape children live in a deadly environment shot through with live electrical cables, shack fires, burning candles and paraffin stoves during load-shedding and boiling kettles and pots going off in cramped, rickety spaces.Many suffer horrific burns and arrive at the Frere and Cecilia Makiwane hospitals’ paediatric surgery unit severely hurt, starving, confused and frightened
The raindrops were literally drying on my helmet visor when I spotted Buffalo City traffic cops setting up their ATM at the entrance to the Gonubie cement road. I mean, they were emptying pockets metres from the circle leading off the old R102 Farmarama circle. Google tells me they were one minute away from where Anthropogene, the climate monster, came and bit off chunks of bitumen and road metal barriers.