Pensioners

Mandy de Villiers wakes up each day dreading the possibility of finding her 83-year-old mother dead from starvation — forced to choose between buying food or paying her electricity bill, which has skyrocketed to more than R3,000 since the…

It’s scholar transport‚ an ambulance and gets the elderly to pension pay-points The North West department of community safety said it has spent R780‚000 on acquiring 20 donkey carts which it has given to villagers in the Dibono and…

Havens of care for the elderly are having to work to fill residents’ days as they isolate to cope with the pandemic, writes Paula Andropoulos Surreal, surreal, our favourite new refrain: a tattoo in my mind as my mother and I held hands,…