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South Africa’s biggest killer
Tuberculosis, or TB, as people say, is a very dangerous sickness. Ten people die from TB every day in South Africa. And no-one knows how...
The dangers of liquor
You can get a sickness called Pellagra from Liquor. Liquor eats up the vitamins in your body – and your body need vitamins to be strong....
The disease of love
Last Christmas was a special time for Manthabiseng. Her husband came home from the mines. It was special because he did not come the year...
The dangers of teargas
DID TEARGAS KILL MAUDE NZUNGA? On the morning of the 3rd September last year, the police threw two teargas cannisters through the windows...
“I don’t cough, I cry”
Nkalegeng Kaizer Mamailana lives in the village of Mmafefe – beneath the old Darlton Asbestos mine. He was a young man when he worked at...
Death in the air
The Olifants River flows gently through the green valleys of the Strydpoort mountains. Thousands of people live in villages on the river...
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