Mahalapye, the nation lose a tireless servant

The Mahalapye community was shocked to hear about Dr Sheea's untimely death due to complications from diabetes in the early morning hours of the 14th of April. Not only was she a committed medical doctor, her dedication to her religion and her work as an AIDS activist and community worker had seen her travelling all over southern Africa and the world leaving behind many who counted her among their friends.

Dr Sheea was born on the 22nd of December, 1950 in Mapoteng, Lesotho. She attended school in the South African town of Ficksburg and later at St. Monica's Girls High School in Leribe, Lesotho. Her mother was a nurse and the young Sheea listened to stories about the suffering the blacks had to withstand in the Apartheid styled hospitals of the time. Childhood deaths from diseases like malnutrition and pneumonia, which could easily be treated in the white hospital meant death to many in the black  hospital.