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Source: https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19...ration-facing-a-world-without-adults-12229065
COVID-19 rips through South African townships leaving a generation facing a 'world without adults'
John Sparks - Africa correspondent
Friday 26 February 2021 07:46, UK
There is a pink house in the township of Zwide that sounds much like any other family home at six or seven in the morning.
Inside, we watched three boys and one girl race to get ready for school and there were lots of things to brush, tie and polish before the school bell rang.
But there was someone missing in this house in the South African city of Port Elizabeth.
The children's mother, Bela, has died of COVID-19 - and their father has left the scene.
Abuqua, who is 16, his sister Amyoli, 11, and nine-year-old twins Oyi and Ayi are orphans now - and they have been left in the care of their frustrated 23-year-old cousin...
COVID-19 rips through South African townships leaving a generation facing a 'world without adults'
John Sparks - Africa correspondent
Friday 26 February 2021 07:46, UK
There is a pink house in the township of Zwide that sounds much like any other family home at six or seven in the morning.
Inside, we watched three boys and one girl race to get ready for school and there were lots of things to brush, tie and polish before the school bell rang.
But there was someone missing in this house in the South African city of Port Elizabeth.
The children's mother, Bela, has died of COVID-19 - and their father has left the scene.
Abuqua, who is 16, his sister Amyoli, 11, and nine-year-old twins Oyi and Ayi are orphans now - and they have been left in the care of their frustrated 23-year-old cousin...