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Posted inEquality, General, Health

Dying for a transplant

Lawyers for Human Rights by Lawyers for Human Rights 2 April 201514 April 2015

By Patricia Erasmus It is a lawyer’s worst nightmare — having to watch your client die. But this was the reality for our staff when an Ethiopian man was brought to us in the final stages of double renal failure. As he lay in the parking lot of our offices, disorientated, weak and struggling to […]

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They can’t vote. We can. They need our help.

Sarah Britten by Sarah Britten 1 May 20148 May 2014

Are you voting next Wednesday? (I hope so.) Here’s something to think about. You’re not just voting for yourself — you’re voting on behalf of a whole lot of South Africans who can’t. Eighteen million of them, in fact — 37% of South Africans are under the age of 18, and they are the ones […]

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