Covid-19 claims champion of rural women's rights Sizani Ngubane
She said after being discharged from hospital, Thulani and his son went to check on Ngubane at her home after receiving no help. They found Ngubane’s decomposing body in the dining room of her home. “What they found was something no child or grandchild should have to deal with. Their experience [was] a gross violation of their mother’s/grandmother’s dignity, and their own cultural norms about respect. “Sizani Ngubane was a remarkable woman who has left a void in her brainchild, the Rural Women’s Movement. “Having been part of the National Women’s Coalition in the early 1990...