Sipho Nkosi (17) has been the bread winner of his family for the past three years.
He explains his mother died in 2012, leaving him to look after his younger brother and sister.
Nkosi says following his mother’s death, his relatives from the Eastern Cape came to pay their last respects and promised to adopt them after the funeral.
“They sent us money for three months, and then I lost my phone and we lost contact,” he says.
Nkosi says he works at a local shop after school and over weekends to make ends meet.
Deputy chairperson of the South African National Civic Organisation (Sanco) and ward councillor Wilson Busakwe says government must intervene.
“Some of the children are kicked out of the family home by relatives,” he says.
Busakwe adds the organisation has come across incidents, especially in Extension Three, where relatives tried to evict children from their parents’ houses.
He urges members of the community to be supportive in helping such families.
