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Demand for South African 'superfood' blueberries booming

Blueberries are packed with antioxidants that can help fight cancer, diabetes, heart disease and other ailments. [AFP]

Floppy hats and face masks on, hundreds of workers carefully pick a bumper crop of blueberries on the sunny slopes of the Groenlandberg, a spur of South Africa's Hottentots Holland Mountains.

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