CHAPTER 12Ngoku okhanye hayi uyeke
Now or Never
“Your mother won’t be able to go back to the township with you again,” Sister Princess says straight out without fudging the issue. “She’s survived two or three bad bouts of pneumonia, quite miraculously, even before you arrived. She suffered those because she is infected with the HI-Virus that causes AIDS. Her lungs have been so damaged that from now on she will need oxygen regularly and will have to be under medical supervision.”
I feel as if we can trust Sister Princess and also that she knows more than any of the people we’ve met before. As bad as it is to hear the news about Mama’s health, it is really important to understand everything about this disease. People still deny that AIDS exists or try to keep it secret – even some politic
