MALAMULELE – A rural unemployed woman, Mrs Tsakani Gladys Mahonisi (26) of Phaphazela Village in the Malamulele area, is baffled by the fact that computers of the Department of Home Affairs are showing that she died two years ago in the Elim Hospital.

Mahonisi discovered this when she went to the Department of Home Affairs to collect her child support grant for her two children.

She said the Home Affairs Officials checked her identity document and told her that she was not eligible to receive a child support grant, because the computers show that she has died.

The information on the computers said she had died of tuberculosis at Elim Hospital on December 27, 2001. When she rushed to the Home Affairs Department at Malamulele, she was told that she had to apply for another identity document. In March 2002, she got another identity document, but the identity number was still the same and the Home Affairs officials are still refusing to pay her the child support grant.

Although Chief GS Chauke tried to help by writing a letter to the Home Affairs Department, all efforts have been in vain. Mahonisi is worried because her children have no money to pay school fees.

The Spokesperson of Health and Welfare Department, Mr Phuti Seloba, said it is not a difficult issue. Mrs Mahonisi must go to the police station to complete an affidavit or to go to the social worker, where everything will be fixed.