South Africa: If This Is Freedom Then I Don't Want It, Says 80-Year-Old Flagstaff Granny

Eighty-year-old Nothembinkosi Nontsasa cuts a defeated figure sitting outside her crumbling home in Dlibona village in the small town of Flagstaff, Eastern Cape. Her adult children can't get IDs so the family of six survives off her old age pension.

Family and neighbours say the government has failed her as she lives in "deplorable" conditions.

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