People queueing outside of Ngcobo Community Health Centre in Masonwabe township. The clinic has been without running water for 10 years. (Delwyn Verasamy)
It was only as she tried to run away to save herself that a former colleague of Sisipho Grootboom* discovered she was stuck.
Her patient’s family, who’d rushed him in, intoxicated and with a knife wound, had locked the main entrance, fearing that the attackers would try to get to him again.
But in doing so, they’d cut her off from the only other person on site — and the person…
