The stigmatisation of sick people is not something new and was experienced even with HIV/Aids.
The Covid-19 recovery rate in South Africa is one of the highest in the world and stands at 60 percent, yet many who have recovered and beat the virus are still battling to shake off not only the trauma but the stigma associated with it.
“My results came through my neighbour’s phone because I didn’t own one at the time, and in a matter of hours after receiving the news, the entire community was talking about it, and some came around my house taking videos and pictures of us. There was even talk of burning us because we were the Corona family,” she added.
In Joburg, people’s reaction to 39-year old *Zimele Ngcobo were not as blunt as they were to Jacobs, but a few blamed him and accused him of bringing the virus closer to them. “It is only now that some of my friends are telling me how they thought we wouldn’t pull through, and how their fears of contacting the virus influenced their decisions not to call us. And these are educated, modern people that live in the city”.
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