A 12-hour work shift has been Boniswa Mbovane's life for the past two decades.
City of Johannesburg firefighter and paramedic Boniswa Mbovane got into her job 20 years ago knowing it was a “labour of love”.
Mbovane is the platoon commander of 11 emergency workers at the Diepsloot fire station. Her team comprises seven men and four women. Describing her most difficult day at a work, Mbovane said: “We attended to a motor vehicle accident one time where we found that the driver had been ejected from the car. His body parts had broken into pieces. We found his neck in one place, his hand in another place and so forth.” As gruesome a scene as this was, she and her colleagues had to face the scene head-on, only addressing the horrific scenes they had seen afterwards. But this is all in a day's work for her.
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