WATCH: How one man`s random act of kindness saved another from clutches of despair
(World News South Africa)

Durban - When Mpathi Rooiland began his almost 900km trek back to the Eastern Cape from Johannesburg, he had reached rock bottom. The 49-year-old former flight attendant had given up searching for work and trying to pick up the pieces of his life. He had lost his job and his family due to depression. It seemed he was trapped in a vicious cycle. Rooiland had decided to go back home and figure out the way forward from there. But what happened next...