Collet 'adopts' limbless Ndlovu

These could be Dale Collet's words. Remember Dale Collet? He is the gentleman who drives while on his belly because more than half his body is crippled, and whose front-page story we carried two issues back with the headline The Phenom of Mmamashia. In the same issue we carried the heartrending story of Pontsho Ndlovu, the  limbless beggar who spent days asking for alms at Gaborone's African Mall, spending the night under cardboard boxes beneath an old table at the mall. Here he suffered from anything that you can imagine from being urinated upon by some drunk who would not know that beneath the heap of boxes lay a person, being beaten by mosquitoes, Christmas beetles, being drenched to the skin by summer rains, to being nearly frozen to death by our often cruel winters. Yet fellow human beings passed him by everyday, and knew about his plight.

And none, "save for two Indians who once tried" saw the need to help him. That was until Collet and his workers, Barbra and James, read the story.