Vulnerable white Afrikaners dying in townships across South Africa.
This story appeared in the Daily Sun newspaper of South Africa on Monday 02 December, 2013.
Mrs SarahBezuidenhout died a horrible death on Sunday December 1, 2013 in Protea South, Soweto, Johannesburg. Suffering from malnutrition-related disease, according to the paper, ambulance personnel refused to take Sarah to hospital because she was deemed "too dirty" to be transported to hospital. Sarah died in agony six hours later according to her neignbours - see pictures attached. Many destitute Afrikaners cannot afford to pay "rent" for a wooden backyard shack like some do in Pretoria's West-Moot suburb, because they just don't earn enough.
Those who are lucky enough to have a minimum-wage job, or who receive some or other government grant (whether for old age or disablility) can in some cases barely afford to do so. Some of these people, still have to resort to begging, to earn enough to buy food.
Others, like Sarah, find "refuge" in the sprawling informal settlements of South Africa, where they can erect dilapidated informal dwellings to shelter them and their families from the elements - no questions asked, no rent charged.
But, just like for all informal settlement-dwellers, ANC delivery is almost non-existent, and shack dwellers are dying because their government doesn't care.
What is more disturbing, is the fact that Sarah and many other hundreds of thousands of Afrikaner destitutes are forming the core of a new group of disadvantaged, the so-called "previously advantaged", or as the ANC prefer to call them, "colonizers of a special type". (By 2008) some 800,000 destitute Afrikaners (were already) living in horrible conditions of neglect and poverty, brought about by the social engineering policies of the ANC. These include "JobReservation" and nazi-style disempowerment legislation barring whites from jobs and from owning businesses -- the contentious BB-BEE (Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment) laws, geared at "uplifting blacks" and deliberately barring whites from the job market only because they are white.
Many Afrikaners have already fled in desperation from South Africa to escape the inevitable fate of dying like Sarah in an ANC hovel - poor, neglected, in pain and unwanted by their government...
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Poverty-stricken and extremely ill Sarah Bezuidenhout died on the floor of her shack in absolute agony on Sunday, 01 December 2013, because she was deemed "too dirty" to be transported to hospital.
Photo's - Daily Sun 02-12-2013 (2 photos)
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Protea south shack-dweller, a destitute Afrikaner Mrs Sarah Bezuidenhout, was 'left to die by paramedics because she was dirty' -- The Star: -- Headline: Ambulance left 'dirty’ woman to die - December 3 2013 report by Theresa Taylor.
Johannesburg - Sarah Bezuidenhout’s living conditions were harsh. A small shack of corrugated iron that was barely holding together. Inside there was no stove or kitchen, just a broken double bed, filling up the room, and a few clothes sprinkled across the floor.
Her neighbours in Protea South say that despite how sick she was, when paramedics from the Joburg emergency services saw the conditions she was living in, they refused to take her to the hospital.
She died the next day. Bezuidenhout, 44, had been sick for several weeks. On Thursday, neighbour Busisiwe Twala called an ambulance. But when they arrived they refused to transport her to hospital.
“They said even if they take her to the hospital she is still going to come back to this place so there was no point,” said neighbour Cristina Twala. “They left her to die because she was dirty.”
“They said the shack needed to be fixed and we must go to the ward councillor,” said Busisiwe.
The next day, Bezuidenhout was worse. Busisiwe called emergency services and says she was told that they would not respond to calls from the informal settlement in Protea South.
She called a second time. Her initial call was at 12.30pm, Bezuidenhout died at 6.30pm and the ambulance eventually arrived at 20.30pm.
“They want our votes but they can’t help us when we are sick,” said Busisiwe. “If a person is sick we must take them to a clinic in a wheelbarrow, we are too dirty to go in the ambulance.”
Robert Mulaudzi, spokesman for emergency services, said they took the issue seriously, but would not investigate until the family laid a formal complaint.
The death of Sarah Bezuidenhout mirrors the negligent death of a homeless man that was revealed in an exposé by The Star in 2004. The body of an unidentified homeless man was discovered in President Street in the Joburg CBD by a security guard.
The afternoon before, surveillance cameras revealed that the man – still alive – had been lying in a gutter. Security guards reported the man to the Joburg Emergency Management Services.
An ambulance arrived, but the two paramedics examining the man carried him to a nearby wall and left him there to die because they would not put the “flea-and-tick-ridden vagrant” into their ambulance because he was “too dirty and stank”.
The man died a few hours later. If you have a complaint against the JEMS, call 011-375-5555 or visit your local fire station. - Additional reporting by Shain Germaner
The Star http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/ambulance-left-dirty-woman-to-die-1.1615729
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