Emigration, poverty and unemployment are contributing to the neglect, abandonment and economic abuse of senior citizens
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“Every day I was crying. She was locking me in the house. Even at Christmas, she left me in the bedroom. She didn’t come. What if there is a fire, and the whole place burns down, and I am locked inside?” Jo-Ann Herbst, founder of The Elders Voice KZN, receives 300 calls every week from people seeking accommodation. Although she runs three facilities — Umbilo, as well as Amanzimtoti and Pennington on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast — without any state subsidies, she says it is impossible to help them all.
“An emancipated dog that’s been beaten and now being fed well by an organisation like the SPCA. It’s got traction. What traction does an old person have? They’re old, wrinkly. They are no longer contributing members of society.” “The high unemployment rate and escalating fuel, food and utility costs have resulted in families struggling to survive financially.
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