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HOPE IN UNCERTAIN TIMES

HE DOESN’T have many positive things to say about 2020.

Like many people in show business, the pandemic robbed actor David Butler of work, and his income all but dried up.

He was forced to move in with one of his daughters and become a dependant on her medical aid – and in the three months’ waiting period before he could claim benefits, he was tossed another curveball: lung cancer. And it had already spread to his brain.

David, who has a long list of acting credits, including roles in Generations, The Game, Soul City, Snitch, Room 9 and Jozi-H, is clinging to the hope that aggressive

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