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.
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...