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JOAN HALLY from Somerset West writes:

At the AGM of the Helderberg Street People's Centre, Ian Greer, the chairman (who does an incredible amount of work for these people) told us about two men whom he found lying dying on our streets.

These men had been in hospital and were released as there was "nothing more to be done for them" and told to go home. Home is the streets.

One was helped financially to go to his sister somewhere upcountry and when he got there she had died. Someone else paid for him to come back, so he is back on the streets.

I was helping at the soup kitchen last week and a man was lying outside on the street. At first we thought he was drunk, but it turned out he was ill and very weak. We phoned the Metro police, but by the time they arrived he had disappeared.

I was very distressed to see this person lying there when he should have been in a bed.

I am writing this to make the people of Somerset West aware that people are actually lying dying on our streets. Is this acceptable?

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