Loftus Stadium in Pretoria packed with fans who came out in numbers to support Mamelodi Sundowns and Orlando Pirates on Saturday.

With a degree in psychology and a diploma in journalism, Tshepo Sibeko of Soshanguve braved the icy cold morning yesterday, standing in a long queue with hundreds of other people desperate to get a job.

Since losing her mother to cholera, Rhulani Baloyi is scared of tap water. However, she has no choice but to drink it because she is unemployed and can’t afford to buy water.

“It didn't just take the elderly; it took the young as well. Parents lost young children who had their whole lives ahead of them,” says Tebogo Mashiane whose father died from cholera.

It has been a year since more than 20 people from Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria, died of cholera. The outbreak devastated families and the community at large, leaving a trail of destruction, grief and shattered dreams. Herman Moloi and Antonio Muchave visited the area to speak to families who lost loved ones and the community about what has happened after the outbreak.

Dimakatso Semenya stood in a hospital queue for 12 hours with her son lying limp in her arms, dying from cholera. By the time they were finally seen by a doctor, it was already too late for him.

Tebatso Mulaudzi would have been the first in her family to get higher education and a job, but her dreams were cut short when cholera killed her nine days before she started her teaching practicals.