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    THEY DIED ON THE SAME DAY

    Jul 03, 2020 4 minutes
    BY COLIN HENDRICKS
    ‘Why my mom and dad? Why both of them? Why on the same day?’

    HER biggest fear when the pandemic arrived in South Africa and started its insidious creep across the country was that one of her parents would get it.

    She worried especially about her dad, a driver for Alexandra Hospital, a specialist mental healthcare facility in Cape Town.

    As an essential worker in one of the industries most vulnerable to Covid-19, he knew he was at risk but he was hyper-vigilant about hygiene, Amy Volkwijn (19) says.

    He kept his mask on at all times, he washed his clothes as soon as he got home and he sanitised his hands religiously.

    Still, she fretted constantly that he’d

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