Reports from South Africa state that diabetes is becoming the country’s biggest natural killer, surpassing major communicable diseases such as tuberculosis and HIV. The reporting says diabetes claims roughly 79 lives each day.
The articles frame the development as a shift in the country’s top causes of death. While previous public health burdens have long been associated with TB and HIV, diabetes is presented as an increasing driver of mortality. The sources emphasise the scale of daily deaths and the change in ranking among leading causes of natural death.
Across the coverage provided, the key common point is the reported figure of around 79 deaths per day and the claim that diabetes now ranks above TB and HIV. No additional details—such as the specific study, time period, or methodology behind the estimate—are included in the provided excerpt, so those elements cannot be independently compared from these sources alone.
