'The pain is indescribable': Grieving SA mom pleads for help after au pair daughter dies in US
In a GoFundMe summary which has been set up to help her family bring her home, Tshabalala's mother, Nthabiseng Mnisi, said she was devastated.
'My beautiful daughter, my shining star, left this world far from home, in the US. She went to America last year to work. Unfortunately, she got sick in April and she was let go,' she said.
'The pain of losing her is indescribable, but what's equally unbearable is the financial burden that now weighs me down,' she said.
Tshabalala experienced a severe mental health crisis in April, just a few weeks after arriving in the US as part of an au pair programme.
'Thobile joined the au pair programme and was deployed to the US. In April, she experienced a mental breakdown and was coerced into breaking her match while in a compromised mental state, resulting in the termination of her contract,' said family representative Kholekile Mnisi.
Mnisi said after the termination, Tshabalala was allegedly left without support.
'The programme allegedly failed to provide Thobile with an immediate place of safety, leaving her vulnerable and without adequate support,' said Mnisi.
According to the family, after losing her placement, Tshabalala travelled to Phoenix, Arizona, and later to New Jersey in the hope of returning home through a friend who had promised to help her secure a flight back.
While travelling from New Jersey to Ohio, she collapsed and was hospitalised. Her condition deteriorated rapidly.
Tshabalala died on June 8.
The family has since launched a GoFundMe campaign with a goal of raising R362,104 to cover the costs of bringing her body back home. So far R325,314 has been raised through 483 donations.
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