South Africa, Fifteen Years On
Benedicte Kurzen / VII Mentor for TIME
Tea and Sympathy
Onele Ndabakayise, 12, helps her uncle with tea in Mvezo. With few
jobs in the villages, millions of rural South Africans migrate to the
cities to look for work, leaving their children in the care of the
extended family. Onele's parents are hundreds of miles away in
Johannesburg.
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