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The apparent murder-suicide of a mother and her three children because they were starving is not an isolated case in the Eastern Cape, a humanitarian group based in Butterworth has warned.
Financial hardship and a daily struggle to put food on the table may have been why an Eastern Cape mother took her life and those of her three young children. The deaths of 38-year-old Bongeka Buso and her children, Oratile, Orabile and Anathi aged five, eight and 14 have left the residents of Tholeni village, in Butterworth, in a state of shock.
Nelson Mandela Bay’s 10 state-funded old age homes are on their knees as a meagre subsidy and the escalating cost of food and other basics create a perfect storm.