SHE SIMPLY COULDN’T GO ON
Nov 26, 2020
4 minutes
BY CYRIL BLACKBURN
PICTURES: LUBABALO LESOLLE
THEY thought she’d be snatched away from them when cancer invaded her body as a baby – but their little girl was a fighter.
She went on to grow up, meet the love of her life and marry him.
Then tragedy struck: her beloved husband was killed in a freak trampoline accident and she fell apart. Ten months later she was dead – and her grieving parents believe she died of a broken heart.
In her final weeks, Amelia and Desmond Delport could only watch helplessly as their daughter, Denise du Toit, inched closer and closer to the grave. “I didn’t recognise her anymore,” Amelia
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