STARVATION IN SOUTH AFRICA.
The Johannesburg correspondent of the Gape Times, telegraphing on Jan. 14, reports:— ' The storekeeper at Letaba and some some other persons have been giving mc gruesome stories in connection with the starvation existing there. In a circle of, say, half a mile from the store there are three dead Kaffirs, who came from Agatha ; on the farm !of Mr J. Williams there are seven dead, all from starvation. A white woman died the other day, and I have it on the very best authority that two days before this woman died her daughter came to the st Te and asked for a few pounds of rice ' for God's sake.' I understood that the woman died absolutely _vom lack \ of food. A Kaffir was found lying in the road in front of the Leydsdorp coacli in such a state of exhaustion that it'was* neces•v*»y to lift him out of the road in order to let the coach proceed.'
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 3521, 10 March 1897, Page 6
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161STARVATION IN SOUTH AFRICA. Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 3521, 10 March 1897, Page 6
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