Lost nose: life imitates hoax ad

This isn’t funny. From a local paper:

Prosthetic nose lost at The Zone

An appeal has gone out to the public to look out for a prosthetic nose belonging to a 13-year-old burn victim, after it was lost at a mall in
Rosebank in December, according to the Children of Fire charity [link], The Citizen newspaper recently reported. According to the organization, Dorah Mokoena [link] is the most badly burned girl in the world to survive her ordeal. She lost the nose — especially made to match her colouring and face shape — which is valued at R3 000, while on an outing at the Zone in Rosebank. A volunteer who took Dorah and six other burn victims to the cinema noticed that her nose was missing. A search of the area proved fruitless.

I said, this isn’t funny!

A hat-tip goes to regular reader Rory, not to be confused with Rory Emerald, who once placed a classified advert claiming he’d found a prosthetic nose near Michael Jackson’s Neverland ranch in the Iowa City Press-Citizen, which in turn is not to be confused with The Citizen, a South African newspaper.

So, if you’re nosing about Rosebank any time soon, keep an eye out, would you?

No, seriously, click the links I inserted into the quote above for the full story. Dorah’s story is both tragic and amazing, and what Children of Fire does deserves your support. As do their major sponsors, Pick n Pay, Moyo restaurant, Emirates, Jakaranda 94.2 (which needs to update its sponsor link on the site), Kenya Airways (ditto), Air Tanzania, Virgin Active, and the University of Johannesburg.

Respect.