South Africa Archive

Africa AIDS Hospices

2004 July 7th · Reed Lindsay

ELIM, South Africa – The white pick-up truck rattles to a halt at a round mud and thatch hut cemented with cow dung.

Princess Cele, a stout woman wearing sunglasses, a dark blue beret and a mint green epaulet-adorned uniform, motions her head to a mound of dirt outside the hut.

“She’s dead,” says Cele, who is making her daily rounds as a nurse for nearby South Coast Hospice.

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