Case 2: Thandi
We went to visit
Thandi (not her real name). She lives in a very small house in Mphophomeni. This house is
hardly very comfortable but she seems to make do with what she has. She has no job and the
only way she recieves any money is by donations from a kindly family, this is her last
hope.
She is HIV postive and is trying her best to support her children
under ther circumstances. Thandi's child died quite unexpectedly. She does not know why
the treatment given by the clinic did not help.
She has no close family and is all alone. Her brother was shot and killed in the 1980's
by a policeman who believed he was linked to the ANC/IFP violence, he was actually just
walking down the street.