Ein Freund gave him a mask from a fish factory. It primarily protects against the stench there, it probably can’t do much against Covid-19. But the device covers the whole face, you feel a little safer behind it, and that’s why the bus driver Chleo Cummings wears it. Every day during work, from five in the morning to six in the evening.
The 30-year-old sits in his minibus on the edge of the Imizamo Yethu township in the Cape Town suburb of Hout Bay and waits for the vehicle to fill up. Only when the maximum number of 15 passengers has been reached does he start driving. “Of course I’m afraid,” says Cummings.
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