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Knysna family in race against time to save amputee

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July 31, 2025

A KNYSNA family is desperately trying save 46-year-old Tanja Badenhorst's life.

- MANDILAKHE TSHWETE

She has undergone over 70 surgeries in five years due to a persistent bone infection that has returned despite three amputations.

Since suffering a spinal cord injury while working for a security company in 2015, Badenhorst has been unable to work and first developed the infection in her left leg in 2020.

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