Black Britain: Woman, 83, tells how black pensioners 'couldn't earn enough to save'
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mirror.co.ukHaving lived half her life in apartheid South Africa then half in the UK, Ellen Lebethe knows all about discrimination. She cries “solidarity” with the Black Lives Matter protesters who have taken to the streets across the world, after attending “every single anti-apartheid march” she could in her younger days.
Now 83, much of her energy is spent fighting for the rights of the older generation with the Lambeth Pensioners Action Group and as a vice president of the National Pensioners Convention.
Social care problems, low pensions and loneliness can affect all older people but, she says, inequality means black pensioners face even more disadvantage.
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