Support Marieta in her fight after loss

Support Marieta: A Mother’s Desperate Fight After Losing Everything

In September 2025, Marieta buried her only child, Liam, — her 12-year-old son, her entire world — who died suddenly in a diabetic coma. The pain of losing him is unbearable.

Just weeks earlier, she learned she has PLEOMORPIC SARCOMA, a rare, aggressive cancer in her left leg. It has already spread to her lungs and lymph nodes. Her little boy spent his last days terrified for her life — a heartbreak she carries every second.

Now, freshly grieving, Marieta has started cancer treatment but is medically unfit to work. No income. No medical aid. Only fear and bills. She urgently needs an MRI scan to decide her next step — possibly life-saving treatment or amputation. Public hospitals mean waiting up to six weeks in wards filled with suffering and loss — torture for a mother who just lost her child.

Yet she clings to courage. She promised her son she would keep fighting. She refuses to break that promise.

Your help can save her. Every rand goes toward:

*The critical M...