Starving Northern Cape kids eat river sand in a field of diamonds
18 April 2021 - 00:00
Children in the Richtersveld, supposedly heirs to one of the world’s richest diamond deposits, are eating river sand due to hunger as a once-glittering land reform flagship turns to dust.
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