Tribulations Of A Zim Migrant Worker In Cape Town

This sounds pretty normal for the average working man except that for Samukhange it entails back-breaking hard labour where he is on his feet for a continuous eight hours without any rest unless he uses the all-too familiar excuse of needing to use the toilet.

This is never taken lightly either and the white foreman ensures that this very temporary breakaway is timed to the last second. After all he must get as much work as he can out of the hired labourer whom he has not even bothered to ask his name. Tearing down an old building is not an easy task. For the poor Zimbabwean, like others who have literally fled home in search of a better life in other SADC countries, especially South Africa and Botswana, it means the heaving of the inevitable jackhammer in a continuous rhythm against the more than staunch wall.