Now, it seems, with apartheid laws dying daily, things are getting worse.
Save the Children reported that 200 people were dying daily in the capital.
Witnesses allege that five or six people died daily from starvation.
More than 38,000 children die daily from lack of food, shelter or primary health care, the report says.
In the rest of a man's body 122,000,000 microbes are born daily and die daily.
Ten to 20 die daily along the road, he said, and 300 to 400 more have perished in his town.
The ship's water supply was insufficient for so many people and 20 to 30 prisoners died daily.
Even now two or three patients are dying daily at this one hospital.
At the time, hundreds of Allied soldiers were dying daily from infections.
Many perish on the way and about 50 die daily in the town, relief officials said.