25-year wait for RDP house proved too long for Port St Johns villager
07 February 2024 - 09:39
One of Cwebeni village’s most senior citizens, 92-year-old Maswelekile Petshana, among the many village women living in poverty in dilapidated mud homes, has died without realising the dream of a proper house...
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