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    A PROVINCE IN DESPAIR

    Oct 09, 2020 4 minutes
    BY PIETER VAN ZYL
    PICTURES:
    MISHA JORDAAN

    THE stories are gut-wrenching. People driven to the brink of such despair by hunger that they’re eating anything from grass and shrubs to tortoises to fill their bellies. A family contracting rabies after eating a stray dog. The cries of the desperate coming through day after day: please, help us. We have nothing. We’re starving.

    Residents of the Eastern Cape – South Africa’s poorest province, which includes areas as diverse as the arid plains of the Great Karoo and the lush beauty of the Wild Coast – had already been brought to their knees by a crippling 10-year drought.

    Then the pandemic arrived and lock-down stripped away

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