Dylan Bettencourt
I-Gauteng isengozini yegagasi lesithathu elibi, njengoba amacala enyuka aya ngaphezu kwezi-2 000 nsuku zonke esifundazweni kuphela.
Lokhu kushiwo nguSolwazi uFrancois Venter, oyinhloko yeqembu locwaningo lwe-Ezintsha e-University of Witwatersrand.
NgoMgqibelo, i-Gauteng iqophe izibalo ezintsha zabathelelekile abayizi-2,225 okuhlanganisa izi-10 986 zabantu abathelelekile ezinsukwini eziyisikhombisa ezedlule.
“Yonke imininingwane ikhomba igagasi lesithathu elibi kakhulu e-Gauteng,” kusho uSolwazi Venter etshela i-Daily Maverick.
Uthe bekunzima ukuqonda ukuziphatha kwabantu okuholele kulesi simo.
“Sisafunda ukuthi yini eqhuba la magagasi,” esho.
Uthe yize osopolitiki besola umphakathi ngokuvela kwamagagasi, amagagasi ahambisana kakhulu futhi anokuqagela okukhombisa ukuthi kunencazelo engaphezulu kwezici zabantu.
UVenter ukuqinisekisile ukuthi imibuthano yomphakathi ibamba iqhaza ekungeneni kwezifo kodwa uzibuze ukuthi ngabe ezinye izinto eziphilayo noma ezemvelo nazo zinomthelela yini kulamagagasi.
UMengameli kanye ne-CEO ye-South African Medical Research Council, uDkt Glenda Grey, uthe bakhathazekile nge-Gauteng, i-Free State kanye ne-Northern Cape.
Uthe igagasi lesibili lase-Western Cape belilibi kakhulu kunelokuqala futhi i-Gauteng nayo ikulungele ngokufanayo ukuhlangabezana negagasi lesithathu elinzima kakhulu kunelesibili.
Ochwepheshe abaningi baseNingizimu Afrika, kufaka phakathi uVenter, bakholelwa ukuthi ukukhishwa kwemithi yokugoma kuleli kuyadumaza.
Uthe bayi-60 000 kuya kwizi-70 000 abantu abagonywe nsuku zonke ngesonto eledlule.
“Sidinga ukwenza ngaphezu kwezi-150 000 ngosuku. Sisele kakhulu emuva,” kusho yena.
Kodwa-ke, uGrey uphakamise ukuthi ukugxila kwabo kufanele kube kwenye indawo.
“Kufanele sikhathazeke ngokutholakala kwe-oksijini. Sethemba ukuthi ulwazi olwenziwa kumagagasi okuqala nawesibili lusilungiselele ngokuphathelene ne-oksijini.”
I-Scrolla.Africa ibike ngesonto eledlule ukuthi izinga eliphansi lokugoma laseNingizimu Afrika, kuhlangene nokwenyuka okukhulu kwabatheleleka ngegciwane, kushiya inkinga enkulu yokuphelelwa amathangi e-oksijini.