Red tape keeps gifts from poor
SA woman's festive gesture waylaid by customs rules because it was too generous
08 December 2019 - 00:00
A bureaucratic nightmare and 5kg are preventing a northern KwaZulu-Natal school for the deaf from receiving an international donation of much-needed clothes and toys from Switzerland...
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