They might be brave when faced with a deadly situation but once the badge and guns come off, a human just like all others surfaces and joins the rest of the community as an ordinary citizen.
This one particular officer, Constable Zwido Ngwenya, has been the exception and showed just how big a heart he has.
He has adopted a family and takes care of it as his own. He said that he felt sorry for the children that spent each day just wandering about and not going to school because they did not have the money to pay for fees.
Zwido went out of his way and organised with the schools where the learners used to attend and arranged that they be given an education at no charge as they have no source of income at all. When they thought that he had finished, he went on and bought them new school uniforms.
“I found these children and their mother in April when a neighbour of mine, Ms Munasi told me about them. I was still residing in Uthingo Park at that time. I went ahead and did my investigations into their life and saw that they are not living a good life and the children are suffering,” he said as he explained how he came to be the family’s ‘guardian angel’.
He also added that it did not sit well with him to see a woman suffering, a mother at that with her children. Zwido is one in many few samaritans who actually have the courage to stand up and help others the way that he has.
Apart from having organised the children’s school fees, Zwido said that he has partnered with another woman and together they buy groceries for the family and help them where they can, especially the children because – “It is good for a child to grow up comfortably so as to not be a problematic adult with psychological issues due to their upbringing being of impoverishment,” he said.
The Constable from the Witbank Police Station has said that it is not easy to have to support two families but at the same time he cannot just let the other family suffer because his pockets are only so deep.
Zwido sent out a humble plea as he concluded his story on how he came to meet the Shongwe family, that he would appreciate that anyone who is able to help with any form of donation towards the family to please contact him on 082 849 3562 or 072 310 3541 if there is in any way that one can help with any contributions towards a mother and her two children.
