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Bakang Ditibane
Patients have reported receiving incorrect prescription spectacles or have experienced long waits, sometimes years, for their spectacles.
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65th Thuthuzela Care Centre opens in Mitchells Plain amidst South Africa’s ongoing battle against GBV
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