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Joelle Garrus
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/ 20 June 2005

SA’s Aids orphans raised on pensions

Hundreds of thousands of grandmothers, some of them in their twilight years and struggling to make ends meet, are getting a second, often dismal turn at motherhood, raising Aids orphans in South Africa. About half of South Africa’s 1,1-million orphans are being raised by their grandparents.

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