As SA reached a grim milestone of recording more than 100,000 Covid-19 deaths this week, a Pretoria woman recalled the time she lost both her parents, one a nurse, in a space of 10 days to the virus.
Nozizwe Maditla, 45, who lives in Mamelodi, lost her father on January 5 2021 and 10 days later her mother followed.
worked at the department of basic education offices in Pretoria. Maditla said her parents lived with her siblings, twins aged 32, in Mamelodi.
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