Anilafe Mkhota’s Clubfoot Story
Anilafe Mkhota is two years old, she lives in Kraaifontein and has her clubfoot treatment at the Tygerberg Academic Hospital clubfoot clinic. She was born with unilateral clubfoot. Her journey for clinic appointments is a 90 minute return trip. Anilafe is in the maintenance phase of treatment, wearing her clubfoot brace when she sleeps. Her […]
Hlaluminathi Gona’s Clubfoot Story
Little Hlaluminathi Gona is a seven month old baby boy who was born with bilateral clubfoot. He lives in Delft and is having treatment at Tygerberg Academic Hospital’s clubfoot clinic which is about forty five minutes travel time from his home. His dad Sakhele Gona says, “When my son was one week old we took […]
Izomanga Lucas’s Clubfoot Story
Izomanga Lucas is a 4-year-old boy from Jeffrey’s Bay with bilateral clubfoot who has defaulted treatment since 2018. He lives with his family in Jeffrey’s Bay roughly 100 kilometres from the closest clubfoot clinic which is at Livingstone Hospital. Physiotherapist Judy Prince says, “Izomanga first came to our clinic at Livingstone Hospital in 2017 when […]
Oyintando’s Clubfoot Story
Ntombi says, “I gave birth to my son Oyintando at Khayelitsha District Hospital. When I had given birth, no one told me there was something wrong with my baby’s feet. I was a teenage mother and it was my first baby. I thought that maybe all newborn’s feet are like that and they would turn […]
Christiaan Oosthuizen’s Clubfoot Story
Christiaan Oosthuizen is a 5 month old baby boy and the youngest of nine children. He lives with his family in Pretoria. Christiaan’s mom Jorika says, “Christiaan is the youngest of 9 children. He has four brothers and four sisters. They all adore him and initially I had to set a stopwatch to make sure […]
Luthimna Busakwe’s Clubfoot story
Luthimna Busakwe is an eighteen month old toddler living in Khayelitsha. He was born with bilateral clubfoot. His mother Busisiwe says, “When I first saw my son’s feet when he was born I was very sad and had so many questions. Why are my son’s feet like this? Will he be able to walk and […]
Kei Ngwatyu’s Clubfoot Story
Kei Ngwatyu lives with his mother Neliswa in rural Eastern Cape on the Wild Coast, South Africa. Petra Pol, an occupational therapist based at Canzibe hospital, and her colleague Astrid who also works at the hospital, have been treating Kei since he was three months old. Kei is now almost 18 months old. Neliswa says, […]
Sabriel’s Clubfoot Story
We chatted with Sabriel’s mom, Netsai Myamukunda about their clubfoot journey. Her son, Sabriel is currently being treated at the Tygerberg Hospital clufoot clinic in the Western Cape. They both travel almost an hour and a half to make it to their clubfoot appointment. Tell us about your clubfoot journey? On the day my child […]
