At 8.31pm on Thursday June 25, 34-year-old businessman Shonisani Lethole tweeted at health minister Zweli Mkhize: “Mkhize can I respond to your tweets if the problems I have at one of your facilities continues[?] [It’s] becoming unbearable and [they] don’t seem to care. Didn’t eat for 48 hours.”
Four days later, Lethole had succumbed to Covid-19. In the six days he’d spent at Tembisa Provincial Tertiary Hospital, he had, on two occasions, been left without food: for 43 hours, 24 minutes; and for 57 hours, 30 minutes...
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