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Get Clean or I'll Take Your Leg
The businessman who gave an addict a prosthetic leg on the condition he change his life.
Xolani Luvunu was living under a bridge in Pretoria, South Africa when a businessman called Hein Venter approached him with an opportunity. Xolani had lost a leg to cancer and Hein wanted to buy him a prosthetic one. There was one condition. Xolani had to give up drugs and alcohol.
Image: Hein Venter (l) and Xolani Luvunu (r)
Credit: Mpho Lakaje
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