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VIRGINIA MMOLANE: Ke nna Virginia Mmolane. Ke tswa pherishing ya London. Ke bereka as a care-giver’€¦

Ke malwetse ka moka ga ona a phatlaganeng ‘€“ HIV and AIDS, TB, ke hore go fapafapana ga malwetse a re a kgumanang mo motseng’€¦ le gona go tlhokomela bana ba ditjhowana ba ba se nang batswadi’€¦ Re kopana le mathata a gore re kgumana e le gore balwetsi ba gona ene a bane dijo, ene bana ba ba ditjhowana o kgumana e le gore a bane mo ba dulago gone, o kgumana e le gore bano dula lefelongnyana le lengwe le sa kgatleng, ene ebile ba sa apare selo.  

KHOPOTSO: Virginia Mmolane ke e mong wa batho ba 27 ba ithaopileng ho thusa setjhaba ka mora hore ba bone ka moo lefu la Phamokathe le bakang tshenyeho ka teng motseng wa bona wa Bolobedu, profenseng ya Limpopo. Metseng e mengata batho ba kang Virginia e ye ebe bona batho ba ho qala ba arabelang dihloko tsa batho ha lefu la Phamokathe le hlasela. Motse wa Bolobedu ke o moholo o akaretseng metsana e meng e 36. Hore nnete motse ona o boholo bo bokae ha ho bonolo ho ka tseba, empa bohle ba re ‘€œho ena le batho bangata ba hahileng mona.’€ Ha ho le jwalo, bahlokomedi ba 27 ha se palo e kgotsofatsang ho ka nehelana ka thuso e hlokahalang. Caiaphas Mohale, e mong wa bahlokomedi o hlalosa hore hobaneng batho ba sa rate ho ka ithaopa.

CAIAPHAS MOHALE: We don’€™t have something to give them. They always want money after that. They want pay or something like that.

KHOPOTSO: Ho hloka tjhelete ke bothata boo baithaopi bana ba sebetsang ka tlase ho mokgahlo wa kereke ya Roma, Tzaneen, ba tobaneng le bona ka mehla. Empa hona ha ho ba tsitsinye morerong wa bona.

VENDA LESEKA: Nna ke nna Venda Leseka, go tswa Lephephane’€¦ Batho ba re ba fang dipilisi tsa TB, gantsi o kreya e le gore o pallwa ke go fa treatment ka baka la gore o kreya a se na dijo.

Go gapelletsega hore le wena o nyakolle hore na o ka diyang hore a kgone go kreya dijo gore a kgone go nwa’€¦ Ka mora ga moo ge o ya motseng o mongwe wena le wena ga o na selo ka ge e le gore le rena ga re some re no soma go thusa setjhaba.

Bjale o kreya e le gore ga gona se o ka mo fang sona maar ka moka re be re tloga re ya go di-social workers go ba botja mathata a re kopanang le ona. Ka nako e nngwe ba re fa di-food parcels re a ba fa maar ga di kopane batho ka moka.

KHOPOTSO: Phepo e ntle ke ntlha e bohlokwa lenaneong la mmuso la ho oka batho nang le lefu la Phamokathe. Leseka o totobatsa hore bakeng sa ho fedisa tlala phepetso ke ho matlafatsa batho ‘€“ ho se natse hore na ba ena le kokwana hloko ena kapa tjhee ‘€“ ka bokgoni ba ho ka iphumanela dijo.  

VENDA LESEKA: Ke be ke no rata gore ke sa bolela bjale re tlhotlheletse go ba batsho gore le bona ba se ke ba dula fase ba re ka gore re balwetse kapa re re ditjhowana a no nyaka go fuwa a dutse. Ba tshwanetse ba ragarage, ba leme, ba kgope le ka matsogo.

KHOPOTSO: Sena ke seo Caiaphas Mohale a seng a se etsa.

CAIAPHAS MOHALE: We go to the farmers and we get seedlings and we give to the orphans, so that at the end of the day they’€™ve got something. Unlike we make them beggars out of our projects, we are trying to say they must be independent themselves. They must have a garden where they can plant vegetables so that at the end of the day they’€™ve got something to eat. Unlike we just give and give. In the Bible it says ‘€˜teach this person to fish,’€™ not to give him the fish every time. You are spoiling the person.

KHOPOTSO: Le ha ho le jwalo ho bohlokwa hore batho ba fumantshwe tjhelete. Mohale o re ho fumanela batho tjhelete ya thuso ya mmuso ke boima bo boholo.  

CAIAPHAS MOHALE: You know, you find that this is an old person. This person doesn’€™t have an ID. How do you process the grant? How do you do all these things?

You are to fill the forms. So, what we do is to take the social worker to go and see and fill the forms because these people say they’€™ve got no money.          

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