South Africa: ‘I don’t want pity, I want radiation’ – Gauteng health fails Thato Moncho

‘I’m sitting here today knowing that I’m not going to be able to get radiation and praying every night that the chemo tablets continue to work on me. The minute they stop working, what will happen to me then?”

These are the words of Thato Moncho, a 40-year-old mother and cancer patient whose one prayer is that she lives long enough to see her 15-year-old daughter grow up. 

Aside from taking oral chemotherapy to ensure that her cancer doesn’t spread, prayer is one of the few…