Raped doing her job - but it won’t stop her

29 March 2019 - 06:08
By Belinda Pheto and Katharine Child
A community health worker was raped on her way to help those who did had fallen behind on their treatment.
Image: Gallo Images/Thinkstock A community health worker was raped on her way to help those who did had fallen behind on their treatment.

A 28-year-old community health worker was raped in Olifantsfontein, a town between Johannesburg and Pretoria, while walking to the homes of HIV and tuberculosis patients who had fallen behind on taking their medicine.

But, she tells Times Select she “will keep going back to work. I love my job”.