Total Abjection For Moshopa Family

Monday, July 26, 2010

A Moshopa family lives in such abjection that basic survival needs like shelter are unknown to them. The Johanes live in a makeshift hovel, made of corrugated iron and mud bricks.

All 18 of them in this dump! Young children in shorts in the horror of the wintry elements take up most of the space in the little hellhole.

Forty-two-year old Judith Johane, who looks twice her age, assumes the role of family spokesperson in the absence of her sexagenarian mother. The Monitor learns that the family fell on even harder times in 1999 after the sole breadwinner succumbed to a long illness.

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