Miracle girls still face challenges
The girls were born in August 2012 and left orphaned when their 19-year-old mother died during childbirth.
THE two little eNseleni twin girls left in the care of their unemployed grandmother when their mother died while giving birth to them, are now two-year-old bubbly toddlers.
The girls were born in August 2012 and left orphaned when their 19-year-old matric mother, Maboni Samkelisiwe Mthethwa, died during childbirth.
Their grandmother, Fikile Mbuyazi, has been raising the toddlers with the help of government child support, R300 of which she has to spend on rental and power, since she has no house of her own.
‘Every day is a constant struggle for us because we don’t have a house of our own. We constantly have to move from one place to another, trying to find safe accommodation.
‘I even had to abandon the odd domestic jobs I sometimes try to do in-between since I now and again become sick owing to depression,’ Mbuyazi said.
Mbuyazi has finally found land outside eNseleni where to build herself and her family a proper home, but owing to a lack of funding, she has since ‘borrowed’ from the little government child support the girls receive monthly, bought some old pieces of planks and built a toilet size structure. Even though still far from being finished, she hopes it will be enough for her and her family in the interim.
