Singing and dancing at 75 :: Mmegi Online

She bursts into old Mpaxanga and soul classics and with energetic twists of legs and body swings gets into a dancing mood causing tens of the elderly to stand up and join her on stage. Many of them, performing a dance move for the first time since they hit old age.

This is Mishozi Emelda Molokomme,75, very energetic looking despite her age. She says she still sings and dances in her old age just like during her youth, and that has kept her body in fresh shape. She wants every elderly person to embrace this state of mind and live healthier and possibly longer.

Molokomme, famous over he years for her activism in gender issues, including the establishment of the first women rights NGO, Emang Basadi, is convinced old age is a state of mind, and that even in advanced age, the elderly can still be happy, healthy and energetic by refusing to give in to old age myth, which she says can only weaken the elderly people’s bodies.

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