South Africa: Breaking Bad - Cancer Patients Turn Drug Smugglers As Treatment Prices Soar

When a few months of treatment costs as much as a house, some patients are taking their lives and the law into their own hands to survive.

The "fasten seatbelt" sign switched off. Jaco Uys* moved to stand after the more than 12-hour flight from muggy Mumbai. The greying man threw on his backpack and joined the queue shuffling off the international flight and on to the air bridge at Cape Town International Airport.

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