Toil and hardship in impenetrable Gantsi farms
Friday, March 07, 2014
Some of the families who stay at the squatter camp keep warm around the fire PIC KAGISO ONKATSWITSE
As one of the thousands of workers who eke out a living on the sprawling farms located just outside the Gantsi township, Qhuam readily admits that he struggles from month-to-month to provide for his children.
His two eldest live with their aunts, while he shares his one-roomed house with his wife and youngest daughter.
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