Parasites eat and the sick suffer

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.