# Digidigini Villagers Risk Crossing the Mzinhlavu River

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2118990589970760192
- Source account: [@MarioNawfal](https://x.com/MarioNawfal)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 2:17
- Published: 2026-11-07
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wHI6xQjLMiPq/en/digidigini-villagers-risk-crossing-the-mzinhlavu-river

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wHI6xQjLMiPq/en/digidigini-villagers-risk-crossing-the-mzinhlavu-river) The eighty-year-old Daliwe Sulungile, who's living with disability, has lived in Digidigini Village his whole life.

[0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wHI6xQjLMiPq/en/digidigini-villagers-risk-crossing-the-mzinhlavu-river?t=9) He says they have many challenges and there's a lack of service delivery.

[0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wHI6xQjLMiPq/en/digidigini-villagers-risk-crossing-the-mzinhlavu-river?t=15) That's why they are risking their lives to cross the Mzinhlavu River.

[0:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wHI6xQjLMiPq/en/digidigini-villagers-risk-crossing-the-mzinhlavu-river?t=26) We are in the rural areas. And I don't know if the leaders hear us.

[0:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wHI6xQjLMiPq/en/digidigini-villagers-risk-crossing-the-mzinhlavu-river?t=29) We vote. We start by voting, we see that some people are going to vote for us.

[0:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wHI6xQjLMiPq/en/digidigini-villagers-risk-crossing-the-mzinhlavu-river?t=36) But there's nothing that comes our way. The school children, they study in the rain.

[0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wHI6xQjLMiPq/en/digidigini-villagers-risk-crossing-the-mzinhlavu-river?t=39) During winter, we hold onto the cold.

[0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wHI6xQjLMiPq/en/digidigini-villagers-risk-crossing-the-mzinhlavu-river?t=53) Mmalumsele lwamfanekiso says even though she's been crossing this river since childhood, she still gets palpitations every time she has to cross it.

[1:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wHI6xQjLMiPq/en/digidigini-villagers-risk-crossing-the-mzinhlavu-river?t=70) There are many challenges I face. I can't get into the river now. There are days I get in the river. There are times when I feel my body is big because I have this fear that the river I can't get into the river now. There are days I get in the river. There are times when I feel my body is big because I have this fear that the river

[1:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wHI6xQjLMiPq/en/digidigini-villagers-risk-crossing-the-mzinhlavu-river?t=84) might swallow me whole. I get in the water, and the river takes me. I get in the water, and the river takes me. might swallow me whole. I get in the water, and the river takes me. I get in the water, and the river takes me.

[1:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wHI6xQjLMiPq/en/digidigini-villagers-risk-crossing-the-mzinhlavu-river?t=90) Vuzile Samani is a so-called drum operator.

[1:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wHI6xQjLMiPq/en/digidigini-villagers-risk-crossing-the-mzinhlavu-river?t=95) He and others lock people inside the drum and float it over the river with a rope tightened it as a safety feature.

[1:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wHI6xQjLMiPq/en/digidigini-villagers-risk-crossing-the-mzinhlavu-river?t=104) I started when people gave birth to me. I grew up here, and I do what I do. It's not something you can just do.

[1:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wHI6xQjLMiPq/en/digidigini-villagers-risk-crossing-the-mzinhlavu-river?t=113) You have to learn how to do it first. You have to know how not to drown someone.

[2:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wHI6xQjLMiPq/en/digidigini-villagers-risk-crossing-the-mzinhlavu-river?t=120) You have to know how not to lose a life while crossing.

[2:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wHI6xQjLMiPq/en/digidigini-villagers-risk-crossing-the-mzinhlavu-river?t=126) Welcome, sir. So I also have this thing that I will help, but the risk of that thing, I will do it, but I see that it-