Lydia Moeketsie (91) at Donovan McDonald Retirement Centre in Florida, 23 January 2023. Picture by Sibongumenzi Sibiya/ The Citizen
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Donovan McDonald, situated in Florida Johannesburg, is a senior citizens rental facility with 175 units. The elderly citizens from this retirement centre came in numbers fed up with alleged mistreatment and years of empty promises.
91-year-old Lydia Marchetti, who had lived at this retirement centre since 2004, watched the centre’s state deteriorate more and more throughout the years.
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