"This crisis of black survival is directly linked to the predation of big international pharmaceutical and agribusiness corporations, which are mining the Black female body. We have become the latest and last capitalist frontier."
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Anti-apartheid activistsHuman rights activistsFeministsWomen academics from EswatiniSociologists from Eswatini
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Talking about how Black Women, bodies are falling apart, and how they are wrecked by life-style diseases like diabetes, hypertension, viral infections and chronic inflammation of organs
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