A right snarl up in the sand
Mzwakhe Toto started walking strangely when he was 12 and eventually lost the use of his legs. His mother doesn’t remember whether he had been vaccinated against polio. He left school when he became disabled and has lived with his mother in a shack in Guguletu, near Cape Town, ever since. He has difficulty getting around by himself inside the shack because it is cramped. Outside, the sandy terrain snarls up his wheelchair, making it virtually impossible to move. He needs help from the neighbours even to go to the bathroom.
Mzwakhe supplements the disability grant he has received since he was young by working at the Tembaletu Protective Workshop in Guguletu.