Kindness takes old man off streets, into luxury

20 January 2020 - 07:00 By ALEX PATRICK
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Mbeji ‘John-John’ Dube, 88, reacts as Kirsten Legg, who took him in, speaks to Times Select about his compassionate nature.
Mbeji ‘John-John’ Dube, 88, reacts as Kirsten Legg, who took him in, speaks to Times Select about his compassionate nature.
Image: Alaister Russell

After three years on the streets of Sandton, or more specifically inside an electricity box, an elderly homeless man is living in a big home in the same affluent suburb after being taken in by the Legg family.

To the family, he has  been “nothing but a blessing in our lives”.

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