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79 deaths a day: South Africa’s diabetes crisis needs a new strategy

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par Patrick Ngassa Piotie, Chairperson, Diabetes Alliance; Co-founder, Diabetes Research Centre, University of Pretoria

Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) recently released its report on deaths that occurred in 2024. The headline findings contain a sobering, recurring truth: diabetes was once again the country’s leading underlying natural cause of death.

In 2024 alone, 28,767 people died from complications caused by diabetes, accounting for 6.1% of all deaths nationwide. That is an average of nearly 79 deaths every day.

Diabetes also claimed the top spot in 2022…

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