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Opinion: Return of the quacks

Posted in: Free State, Spotlight, Spotlight Edition 3

For a long time, South Africa has been a country where charlatans are able to flourish and peddle dangerous remedies for all kinds of ailments.

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Opinion: Return of the quacks

Who will help the sick and needy?

Posted in: Free State, Healthcare Workers, Latest, Provinces, Sections, Spotlight, Spotlight Edition 1

By Ufrieda Ho – Back in the mid-90s, Angelina Manale Mookadi had dreams of becoming a nurse. “I thought it was a profession I could afford because the government was going to help me pay for my studies. And I always wanted to help my community,” she says, sitting in the kitchen of her home in Tsephong, outside of Welkom, in the Free State.

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Who will help the sick and needy?

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