South Africa: Zuma Promised Me a House

1 December 2017

Four years ago, President Jacob Zuma promised Mbuso Mkhize a house. Known to his friends as "British", 73-year-old Mkhize lost his left arm and leg after an illness. His lower body is paralysed and he uses a wheelchair. His wife died five years ago and he stays alone in one room of a mud house in Snathing, Pietermaritzburg.

He sleeps, cooks and baths in the room. The other two rooms are uninhabitable due to heavy rains. The walls are pockmarked with holes and the windows are broken. A neighbour fetches water for Mkhize because the water pipes to his tap have been stolen.

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