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KHOPOTSO: Nka balla Caiphas Mohale dilemong tse ka fetang 30. Ke monna a kgothallang ho bua ka mosebetsi wa hae, a dulang a apere hantle a le makgethe. O ena le thahasello ya morutabana le boitshwaro ba motho a sebetsang dikantorong tse kgolo. Empa tjhee, ha se morutisi kapa yena moofisiri. Wa hae mosebetsi ke ho hlokomela bakudi.   Ke ile ka etela kereke ya habo ya motseng wa Duiwelskloof, dikilometara tse mmalwa ho tswa Tzaneen, Limpopo. Teng ke ile ka fumana moruti Ntate Tom a fana ka thuto kopanong ya bahlokomedi ba kang Caiphas.

FATHER TOM: I have suffered some terrible disaster. I’€™ve been diagnosed with something. And my question is: ‘€˜Why did it happen to me?’€™

What do you say to me as a friend? We’€™re talking about Job and the friends of Job. And the friends of Job were trying to console him, but it seems they got it wrong. What would you say to me?

KHOPOTSO: E mong wa leloko la kereke, Sister Sally Duigan, o leka ho ka araba.

SISTER SALLY: Uuuurgh’€¦ It’€™s a difficult one, but it’€™s very real.              

KHOPOTSO: Ha pale ena e buang ka Job testamenteng ya kgale e tswela pele, re bolellwa hore metswalle ya Job e ile ya mo fumana molato ka mora hore a kule. Ba ne bua ba re o kula tjeena ka hoba a siitetse Modimo, mmeng he ho kula hona ha hae e ne e le kotlo a e fumanang. Kajeno bongata ba batho ba nang le tshwaetso ya HIV kapa yona Phamokathe ba iphumana e le hore ba fetohile bo-Job ba mehleng. Caiphas Mohale, moKatholike a tiileng, o hopola hore kereke e tlameha ho ka bapala karolo ho fedisa monahano ona.

CAIPHAS MOHALE: We’€™ve said to ourselves that we must know them. We must identify them and say these are the people, so that when you pray, I mention your name’€¦ because I’€™ll be saying: ‘€˜God this is Tebogo, who’€™s sick.’€™ Then that will be something else.

But if you just sit in the church and say ‘€˜we are praying for the people who are sick,’€™ who are those?

So, we said in order to answer this question we just have to go out and really help our people because it’€™s our brothers and sisters, it’€™s our mothers, it’€™s our fathers. So, why sit back and start pointing fingers?

KHOPOTSO: Ha a ntse a tsamaya a hlokomela le ho baballa maphelo a batho, Caiphas o teana le batho ba bangata ba nang le mahloko a fapafapaneng le dihloko tsa bona ha di tshwane.

CAIPHAS MOHALE: With the TB patients, they are many’€¦ so when we go around’€¦ we even encourage them to take medication. Sometimes, you find that (with) the medication you (have to) eat first. What do you eat if you are poor? So, when we come we always give them something so that with the drugs they are given from the clinic, they can use them. Really, the TB people, they are really many, not forgetting that TB is something that is related with AIDS. But with the HIV positive people, really, you know, to come out is really still difficult. But we’€™ve started a group in Kgapane Hospital. They come together and share experiences’€¦ They see that ‘€˜I’€™m not alone. There are people who are really like me’€¦’€™ The number is now 37 ‘€“ those (whom) we have identified.

KHOPOTSO: Empa, na ekaba hona ke hoo Caiphas nnete a batlang ho dula a se etsa ‘€“ ntle le ho lefellwa?

CAIPHAS MOHALE: Really, for me, it was a calling because these people were really left out, sidelined’€¦ And when you are sick you need someone to come and see you’€¦ If you are helped, why don’€™t you go and help other people? We are called to action because of this pandemic.

KHOPOTSO: Hore monna a kang Caiphas Mohale a etse mosebetsi o kang ona, ha se ntho e tlwaelehileng hoba ke bomme haholo ba nkang karolo ya ho hlokomela le ho ka baballa maphelo. Empa ho bona difahleho tse ding tsa bontate kopanong ena eo e neng e tshwaretswe kerekeng ya Roma ya Duiwelskloof, ho ka bolela hore mehla e ntse e ya e fetoha.

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