"This mom thought 'I won't let you take my baby'" - Stacey

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They say a picture is worth a thousand words and when these things happen across the border or in another country far from us, we see these pictures that are meant to shock and communicate how serious the situation has become.

But it's always far away and never in our backyard.

Until it is.

In a desperate attempt to escape looters that had set fire to a building, which quickly became engulfed in flames, a Durban mother switched to her last resort - throwing her child off a roof.
14 Jul 2021 English South Africa Society & Culture · Personal Journals

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