Everyone has described this past week as the coldest in the Dundee area for some years. The mercury has plummeted to minus four degrees with a thick white frost covering the brown grass every morning.
A minus 6 was measured in the Glencoe area. So while you think you are freezing to death while huddling over your heater and drinking hot chocolate spare a thought for Thulisiwe Reginald Mazibuko, fondly known as Blondie, who beds down every night on the veranda of the Methodist Church on Gladstone Street .
Covered only by a thin blanket, the 35-year-old is philosophical. “Yes it is cold at night but it is fairly safe as it is a church,” he told the Courier.
Covered only by a thin blanket, Blondie survives the freezing nights and is up early to sweep the pavement outside the Book Exchange in the hope of earning a few cents for a cup of tea.
Originally from the Uitval area, Blondie says he has been in Dundee for about a year, guarding cars as there is no work in his area.
“It would be nice to get a room to live in. But once winter is over I will be warmer,” he said. If you want to assist Blondie and others who are in need support the Round Table’s Winter Knights campaign.
