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Portraits of lives lost: 'She was wearing someone else’s dress that was too big'

Maverick Citizen: The Life Esidimeni Inquest

Portraits of lives lost: 'She was wearing someone else’s dress that was too big'

By Harriet Perlman and Darnell Nxumalo. Pictures by Mark Lewis