- ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.8-B1.8.12
- Stuk
- 1967
Child gives in to weariness.
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Child gives in to weariness.
By time afternoon session begins, fatigue has caught up with teacher and pupils alike. She has just finished with one overcrowded class, her children have waited three hours. Girl at board is untrained extra teacher waiting to enter nurse's course.
Children waiting in school yard
Small scholars have come early to school, must wait in yard until 11 a.m. session.
Earnest boy squats on haunches and strains to follow lesson in heat of packed classroom.
Infant suffers from advanced malnutrition. Like one in every four African children, he died before his first birthday. His father has worked nineteen years for railways.
There is one bed in the Mogale house. Daniel and Martha and their two youngest sleep in it; others sleep on floor.
Moses Mogale does homework by candlelight. Township houses are not equipped with electricity.
Low-paid Africans buy high-priced goods on time in white-owned stores like this one.
Only thing of any value the Mogales have is stove bought on time.
With older children in school and mothers at work, baby baby-minders are a common sight on African township streets.