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Parasites eat and the sick suffer
The Citizen
|October 29, 2025
Our story and photograph on page 3 today sum up so much that's wrong with South Africa. Sick people, including the elderly and mothers with infants, queue for hours under a torn canvas partially covering a steel frame that provides little protection from the elements. And 10 years and R20 million later, they still don't have a proper clinic.
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In another, wealthy, part of the province, Lamborghinis are being seized from the luxury home of an ANC-connected businessman who allegedly siphoned hundreds of millions of rands from the very health budgets meant to help people like this ... those struggling on society's bottom rung.
This story is from the October 29, 2025 edition of The Citizen.
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