Being born again, thanks to the Covid-19 vaccine

20 June 2021 - 00:00 By Chris Vick

Far from the madding crowd, a group of gogos from Worcester in the Western Cape leave their local clinic singing a verse from the song Mandizalwe Ngokutsha, Sizalwe kabusha (roughly translated as “I have been born again/given a new lease on life”) after receiving their Covid-19 vaccine...

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