The short life of one child affected by the demolitions
Photo 12:
Aged 2 weeks: Ngozi Mine, week after OM
June 2005
Photo 13:
Aged three months: Tsholotsho, dumped by
police after abduction from churches
Photo 14:
Aged 10 months, orphanage:
March 2006 - she died a month later
Photo 15:
Her mother died in January 2006
[picture taken in September 05]
This child, pictured at different points in her short life, was featured in both our previous
videos on the demolitions and is part of the family reported on in the third case study in both
this and the October report. She lived in no fewer than ten places in her eleven months of life:
she was born the week before Ngozi Mine, her first home, was demolished, and never lived
one day in a permanent home with her family. She was in an orphanage, following the death
of her mother in January 2006, when the third picture was taken. She died aged 11 months,
failing to make her first birthday. Her father lives, after one year of displacement – back at
Ngozi Mine….
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