Eat starch or starve: pensioners at risk of malnutrition as food prices skyrocket

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Eat starch or starve: pensioners at risk of malnutrition as food prices skyrocket
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Having to support nine other family members, including her unemployed children, from her state pension of R1,980 a month means this grandmother’s monthly groceries hardly last beyond the 10th day.

A few years ago Nothobile Vika, 74, of Gugulethu, Cape Town, had her right foot amputated after it developed gangrene due to uncontrolled diabetes...

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