Sophie Ndaba has been hospitalised after breaking her ankle.

The actress took to her timeline on Sunday to share a video from her hospital bed, revealing she had to undergo surgery on her ankle after a golf day with friends ended with her falling.

“Woke up in hospital. One minute I’m walking and one minute, I’ve got a broken ankle. I want to remind you that some storms are not there to break you, I think some storms are there to slow you down. Some storms are there to restructure you,” she said.

 

 

 

 

 

Sophie, who is living with diabetes, said she was grateful to be alive as things could have been worse.

“When I looked at the process of the operation and the process of putting steel things in my ankle and the process of the cement and crutches being brought to me I realised life is a process. I’ve decided to embrace it because when I look at where I’m coming from I’m like dear Lord, what is a broken ankle? I still have my life, I still have my humour, and I still have so much to be thankful for, so I want to take this opportunity to thank God. It could have been worse.”Previously opening up about being a diabetic for almost a decade, Sophie said she wanted to raise awareness about the disease and her daily struggles.

She told TshisaLIVE she did not appreciate being labeled an “ailing” person because she was living with diabetes.

“It doesn’t matter how high- or low-powered you are. It does not give you the right as a journalist to write a mockery about a person who has trended for years, who has had many obituaries written about her, a person who every day wakes up and struggles with a killer disease that is diabetes. I’m a single mother and my children need me. I don’t need the stress.”

Speaking to TshisaLIVE two years ago, Sophie recalled how her battle with diabetes led to her blacking out while driving on a suburban road.

“I am diabetic and my sugar levels were very high. I literally passed out. That is why I want to create awareness about the condition. My kids, everyone, were sad. They said: ‘Mom, what if this had happened on the highway?’ It happened on a normal road but the bottom line is the car was wrecked.”