What happens when medical bills stack up or university tuition fees are due, and there's no government safety net to help you out? You ask friends, acquaintances and strangers for help. South Africans in this situation are increasingly turning to online crowdfunding -- where hundreds of millions of rand are raised annually through little more than simple appeals to kindness.
In late September 2019, an elderly woman from Laingsburg who sells homemade bread at the side of the road will be leaving her Western Cape home for the first time in her life on a trip to Italy.
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