four-room house; in Crossroads, outside Cape Town, there were more than
six people to abed. 35
Under apartheid, there were intense contrasts in the health of the differ-
ent sections of the South African population. White South Africans, like
Europeans and North Americans, had a low infant mortality rate (14.9 per
thousand live births in 1978) and a long life expectancy (64.5 years for
males and 72.3 years for females in 1969-71).
Their diseases were those of
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