When Desmond Pedro (30) discovered a strange hardness under his ribcage, the unemployed father of two was preparing for a fresh start on a skills course in Cape Town. Little did he know that he would soon die of liver cancer caused by undetected hepatitis B, writes Sue Segar for Spotlight.
Pedro was hoping to learn skills on a government-sponsored boiler-making course, to help support his family, but the strange condition worried him. When he went to a clinic, nurses said it wasn’t serious and gave him laxatives for constipation.
He returned three times and got the same response.
On his fourth visit, Desmond’s wife went with him, and insisted on a scan. Two weeks later, he returned to…
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Chow – to eat / food. Often used when talking about food, this term can be used as a verb, meaning to eat, or when talking about the food itself.Example: “Let’s chow my bru!” / “This chow is spicy!”
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Kiff / Kief – cool [kif]/[k-eef] Derived from the Arabic kayf, meaning enjoyment or well-being, kiff or kief is most often used to convey similar feelings of nice, cool, great.Example: “This chow is kiff my bru!”