Update: mid June 2006 The mother of the three-month-old child featured in the SPT October report and video, died on 9 January 2006. The baby died in late April – aged less than one year. This little child did not survive one year – she had a short and difficult life, made impossible by demolitions and the continual movement of her family. The father of this deceased child is himself ill, with suspected TB. He is living back in the rubbish dumps of Ngozi Mine, where his original shack was demolished last June. Events since October The original family interviewed, as well as a brother and his family displaced by the demolitions, were accepted into a rural community about 150km from Bulawayo. They were given homestead and cropping space by the local leadership, and the community were prepared to integrate them. The children were registered in the local school and the churches in Bulawayo paid their fees for two terms. The families each managed to erect one small hut before the rains. However, on visiting in mid-June, the authors established that things had not worked out for these two families. Neither family had grown a reasonable harvest, although one had harvested three bags. Neither family had succeeded in building an additional hut since last year, which is very unusual for a rural area. Families with children do not typically live all in one hut, but will have two or three huts, one being a kitchen. In June, no adults from either family unit were left in the area; one was deceased and the other three had all gone back to Bulawayo. There is a surviving son from the Ngozi Mine family, who is eight. He has been taken in by a “grandmother” who is not related. He is the only one still in school in either of these families. However, the school is very far away and there is a good chance that he will drop out of school, and the possibility of him being brought back to Killarney to live with his uncle is being considered. At the other homestead, neither husband nor wife was present. The wife was said to have left for Bulawayo some time earlier, and her husband had followed her thereafter. Their daughter, aged between twelve and fourteen, who had been enrolled in Grade Seven, was said to be now out of school and living with her boyfriend in Entumbane suburb in Bulawayo. They were said to be “married”. The parents of the girl are reported to feel this relationship is okay, although others are scandalised by what they consider to be statutory rape. His two school-going children are still enrolled in school, but are not attending. They are living on their own in the rural areas, under supervision of neighbours. The oldest is around twelve, and is supposed to be keeping both homesteads secure. The other younger children are all out of school as there is no longer money for fees, as the church funds have dried up. One child was severely burnt three months ago in the rural setting. She burnt her feet in a rubbish pit that had hot coals in it. Her feet are badly burnt and infected. She was admitted to hospital for two months and was discharged before the wounds had healed. The clinic is so far 58