Mayor answers call to visit dying boy
Msunduzi Mayor Themba Njilo spread Christmas cheer this morning honouring the wishes of a dying boy who had asked to see him.
17-year-old Miso Khoza from Pietermaritzburg who is doing Grade 11 at Maritzburg College is hospitalised at the Hilton Private Hospital with an aggressive form of cancer. His illness is at advance stage and there is a chance he may not see Christmas.
“He has an aggressive form of cancer that has affected his mobility, he cannot walk, and now, he cannot move his arms. Even when he speaks he speaks in a very low voice; the doctors have told him that the disease has done extensive damage to his body,” said Njilo.
Njilo said it was painful to see a young man suffering so much. “He was already ill when he wrote his exams and was hoping that he would be doing grade 12 next year. He is an active boy involved in many things at the school, including plays.
“When we spoke, he told me that he was expecting anything to happen to him now and I told him to keep his faith in God, because the God we pray to would never desert him. That is also the message I give to all people in this country,” said Njilo.
The mayor was full of praise for the boy’s mother, for her strength. “She is with him day and night at the hospital, she is a very strong woman and her son is very strong.”