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SRC president Lethabo Mokoma. Picture: Supplied
SRC president Lethabo Mokoma. Picture: Supplied

Miriam Mashego* is down to her last two packs of sanitary pads.

Mashego – a fourth-year student – is part of the group of 1 211 South African students studying medicine in Cuba as part of the Nelson Mandela/Fidel Castro Medical Collaboration Programme.

The students find themselves at the heart of the repercussions of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, as the country contends with heightened shortages of basic goods while queues snake outside grocery retailers, exacerbated largely by the US trade sanctions against Cuba.

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