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  • Phillippi Township, informal settlement.  Cape Town.  South Africa.  Mr   Makeleni worked as miners from the 1980 to the 2006; the X-Ray he did in 2009 show he has silicosis and TB.
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  • Philippi Township, informal settlement.  Cape Town.  South Africa. This former miner worked in gold mines between the 1967 and the 1991.  He   developed first asthma and then TB.  In  1997 he started the treatments again TB even do he was infected by TB other 3 times.  The mine company never paid for   his medical care.
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  • Philippi Township, informal settlement.  Cape Town.  South Africa. This former miner worked in gold mines between the 1967 and the 1991.  He   developed first asthma and then TB.  In  1997 he started the treatments again TB even do he was infected by TB other 3 times.  The mine company never paid for   his medical care.
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  • Phillippi Township, informal settlement.  Cape Town. South Africa. Mandzcnkosi Sikhonyama worked in a gold mine between 1966 and 1992. He developed first asthma and then in 1992 he got for the first time tuberculosis, at that time he was fired from the gold mine.  He got ill of TB other 3 times from 1992 until today.  He has been treated for tuberculosis. When he started to be treated in Cape Town Hospital the X‐Ray reveals also silicosis, the lung disease   causes by the durst that is breaded in the mines
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  • Phillippi Township, informal settlement.  Cape Town. South Africa. Mandzcnkosi Sikhonyama worked in a gold mine between 1966 and 1992. He developed first asthma and then in 1992 he got for the first time tuberculosis, at that time he was fired from the gold mine.  He got ill of TB other 3 times from 1992 until today.  He has been treated for tuberculosis. When he started to be treated in Cape Town Hospital the X‐Ray reveals also silicosis, the lung disease   causes by the durst that is breaded in the mines
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  • Philippi Township, informal settlement.  Cape Town.  South Africa. This former miner worked in gold mines between the 1967 and the 1991.  He   developed first asthma and then TB.  In  1997 he started the treatments again TB even do he was infected by TB other 3 times.  The mine company never paid for   his medical care.
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  • Kalicha Township, Cape Town, South Africa.  Mr Magcanye worked as miner between the 1969 and the 1994 when he was fired because he developed asthma; eventually TB affected him also.  He started the treatments in 2002.
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  • Philippi Township, informal settlement.  Cape Town.  South Africa. This former miner worked in gold mines between the 1967 and the 1991.  He   developed first asthma and then TB.  In  1997 he started the treatments again TB even do he was infected by TB other 3 times.  The mine company never paid for   his medical care.
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  • Phillippi Township, informal settlement.  Cape Town.  South Africa.  Mr   Makeleni worked as miners from the 1980 to the 2006; the X-Ray he did in 2009 show he has silicosis and TB.
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  • Phillippi Township, informal settlement.  Cape Town.  South Africa.  Mr   Makeleni worked as miners from the 1980 to the 2006; the X-Ray he did in 2009 show he has silicosis and TB.
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  • Kalicha Township, Cape Town, South Africa.  Mr Sisula worked worked in gold mines from the 1969 to the 1989.  The silicosis that he contracted during the minor activity increases the possibility to get TB when he was exposed.  Today TB and HIV affect him.  For long	  time he couldn’t have access to medical care.
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  • Kalicha Township, Cape Town, South Africa.  Mr Magcanye worked as miner between the 1969 and the 1994 when he was fired because he developed asthma; eventually TB affected him also.  He started the treatments in 2002.
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  • Kalicha Township, Cape Town, South Africa.  Mr Sisula worked worked in gold mines from the 1969 to the 1989.  The silicosis that he contracted during the minor activity increases the possibility to get TB when he was exposed.  Today TB and HIV affect him.  For long	  time he couldn’t have access to medical care.
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  • Phillippi Township, informal settlement.  Cape Town. South Africa. Mandzcnkosi Sikhonyama worked in a gold mine between 1966 and 1992. He developed first asthma and then in 1992 he got for the first time tuberculosis, at that time he was fired from the gold mine.  He got ill of TB other 3 times from 1992 until today.  He has been treated for tuberculosis. When he started to be treated in Cape Town Hospital the X‐Ray reveals also silicosis, the lung disease   causes by the durst that is breaded in the mines
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  • Phillippi Township, informal settlement.  Cape Town.  South Africa.  Mr   Makeleni worked as miners from the 1980 to the 2006; the X-Ray he did in 2009 show he has silicosis and TB.
    h_00012077.jpg
  • Philippi Township, informal settlement.  Cape Town.  South Africa. This former miner worked in gold mines between the 1967 and the 1991.  He   developed first asthma and then TB.  In  1997 he started the treatments again TB even do he was infected by TB other 3 times.  The mine company never paid for   his medical care.
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  • Kalicha Township, Cape Town, South Africa.  Mr Sisula worked worked in gold mines from the 1969 to the 1989.  The silicosis that he contracted during the minor activity increases the possibility to get TB when he was exposed.  Today TB and HIV affect him.  For long	  time he couldn’t have access to medical care.
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  • Kalicha Township, Cape Town, South Africa.  Mr Magcanye worked as miner between the 1969 and the 1994 when he was fired because he developed asthma; eventually TB affected him also.  He started the treatments in 2002.
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  • Tiaan (12 years old) and Sydney are trying to cover the caravan since a storm is coming. It is 1 year and half that the family is living there. The municipality offer to the people of the camp to move to a township but they refused because they considered insultuos going to live with black people. The only solution they see is to restablish the apartheid rules.
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  • Billy and Moyahabo spent friday night with their friends doing the "brai" (barbeque in Afrikans) in their dependence.
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  • Reinard (Left), Tiaan (Center) and Macyla (Right) go walking to the public school nearby.
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  • Billy after breakfast is smoking the last cigarette before going to Pretoria where he is attending theological class at the university. Billy is running is own company that supply food to children, meanwhile he tries to keep is bond with his past becoming a pastor to celebrate mass in a church in Soweto, his father was pastor of the same church.
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  • Moyahabo bring Masindi and the neighbour’s sons to a private school.
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  • In the tent there isn’t a real space to have dinner so everybody is choosing a place. They tried to keep the diet they have had before moving to the camp mainly based in hot-dogs and sausages.
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  • While Ronel (left) and Sydney (center) are having dinner, Nadine (4 years old, right) is falling sleep.
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  • Billy’s family pray all together. Since Billy wants to become a pastor of a Soweto’s church this is one important moment in the day.
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  • Moyahabo is selecting the dresses to send to China and be re-produced. Moyahabo set up her company that import clothes from China and sold them to the shops of Johannesburg.
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  • Billy and Moyahabo get relaxed after a day of work. . Even if both are from poor families, working hard they managed to open their own company: Billy has a company that distribute food to children, Moyahabo set up her company that import clothes from China and sold them to the shops of Johannesburg.
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  • In the tent there isn’t a real space to have dinner so everybody is choosing a place. They tried to keep the diet they have had before moving to the camp mainly based in hot-dogs and sausages.
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  • Ronel is washing the dirty clothes.
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  • Masindi (9 years old) look in the fridge for something to eat after at school.
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  • Barnard and his mother stand outside the tent. After loosing their job and their house the family composed of 2 parents (Ronel and Sydney), their kids (Nadine, Reinard, Tian and Macyla) and the respective grandparents, move to Krugerdorp camp in 2008. From then they are living in a caravan and a tent.
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  • In the tent there isn’t a real space to have dinner so everybody is choosing a place. Barnard is preparing dinner. They tried to keep the diet they have had before moving to the camp mainly based in hot-dogs and sausages.
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  • Sandton, Johannesburg. After a day of work Billy and Moyahabo are back home.
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  • Reynard (14 years old) and Sydney, his stepfather, stand in front of the caravan. After loosing their job and their house the family composed of 2 parents (Ronel and Sydney), their kids (Nadine, Reinard, Tian and Macyla) and the respective grandparents, move to Krugerdorp camp in 2008. From then they are living in a caravan and a tent.
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  • Reinard (14 years old) is having breakfast before going to school nearby. In the camp, some volunteer prepares the breakfast for all the kids. The breakfast consists in the “pap”: ground maize mixed with milk.
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  • Barnard and his wife Ronel calculate the monthly income from saltuary jobs.
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  • Moyahabo is selecting the dresses to send to China and be re-produced. Moyahabo set up her company that import clothes from China and sold them to the shops of Johannesburg.
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  • Ronel is preparing dinner for all the family. After loosing their job and their house the family composed of 2 parents (Ronel and Sydney), their kids (Nadine, Reinard, Tian and Macyla) and the respective grandparents, move to Krugerdorp camp in 2008. From then they are living in a caravan and a tent.
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  • Moyahabo is giving the good night to Masindi (9 years old) and Tlhase (3 years old). Billy and Moyahabo are living in one of the best area of Johannesburg with their two doughters, Masindi and Tlhase. They are actually looking for a bigger house still in Sandton.
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  • Billy and Moyahabo's younger doughter, Tlhase (3 years old), watch the tv in one of the 2 living room of the house.
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  • In the tent there isn’t a real space to have dinner so everybody is choosing a place. They tried to keep the diet they have had before moving to the camp mainly based in hot-dogs and sausages.
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  • Dinnertime is the first moment when the family is really all together after a day spent at work or at school. Also the housekeeper has dinner together with Billy, Mayahabo and their doughters.
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  • Anne (Ronel’s mother) is looking at their present accommodation. She was used to live in one of the best part of Johannesburg, Melville. Very often she look at their caravan remembering her independent house.
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  • After loosing their job and their house the family composed of 2 parents (Ronel and Sydney), their kids (Nadine, Reinard, Tian and Macyla) and the respective grandparents, move to Krugerdorp camp in 2008. From then they are living in a caravan and a tent.
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  • Reynard (14 years old) plays inside the tent. Since they do not electricity most of the time they can play since there is enought light entering from the window.
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  • After school Masindi (9 years old) and Tlhase (3 years old) play in the garden.
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  • Billy after breakfast is smoking the last cigarette before going to Pretoria where he is attending theological class at the university. Billy is running is own company that supply food to children, meanwhile he tries to keep is bond with his past becoming a pastor to celebrate mass in a church in Soweto, his father was pastor of the same church.
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  • In the tent there isn’t a real space to have dinner so everybody is choosing a place. They tried to keep the diet they have had before moving to the camp mainly based in hot-dogs and sausages.
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  • Billy is discussin with his older doughter Masindi (9 years old) about the monthly payment. Billy want that Masindi get responsable using the money, he is from a poor family and even if now they have money he didn't forget the past times of struggle.
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  • Tiaan (12 years old), Nadine (4 years old) and Reynard (14 years old) play together inside the tent. Since they do not electricity most of the time they can play since there is enought light entering from the window.
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  • Nadine (4 years old) play outside of the caravan.
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  • Ronel is preparing Nadine (4 years old) for school. She claims that some day are worse of the others and that is not fair that the government is not finding them a job. Before losing their job they was working for Johannesburg municipality.
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  • Ronel pray with the smaller kids of the camp in the kindergarten they made. Ronel volunteer to be a teacher of the kindergarten; since the pastor that comes every Sunday to Krugerdorp camp to celebrate mass doesn’t below to their congregation Ronel pray at school.
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  • Billy and Moyahabo are living in one of the best area of Johannesburg with their two doughters, Masindi and Tlhase. They are actually looking for a bigger house still in Sandton.
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  • Tlhase (3years old) is going to bed.
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  • Sydney and Tiaan (12 years old) and Reynard (14 years old) enter in the tent to run away from the rain. Rainy days remember to the family how was living in a proper house pefore loosing everything.
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  • A moment of intimacy between Billy and Moyahabo after work. Even if both are from poor families, working hard they managed to open their own company: Billy has a company that distribute food to children, Moyahabo set up her company that import clothes from China and sold them to the shops of Johannesburg.
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  • Ronel is preparing Nadine (4 years old) for school. She claims that some day are worse of the others and that is not fair that the government is not finding them a job. Before losing their job they was working for Johannesburg municipality.
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  • Masindi (9 years old) have breakfast before going to school. On the other side (left) the housekeeper is preparing the breakfast for her younger sister.
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  • Moyahabo is preparing the breakfast to her younger doughter Tlhase (3 years old)
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  • Moyahabo prepare the dinner while Masindi (9 years old) is doing her homeworks.
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  • Ronel is looking at the rain fulling down after cleaning the tend from the water that entered. the municipality offered to the people of the camp an accomodation in a local township but they refuse because they do not want to live with black people.
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  • This young man from Zimbabwe looked for a job when he arrived in South Africa but he didn't find nothing. Now he is spending his time inside the church during the night and just outside the church during the day. Like many he is waiting for the occasion that will change his life.
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  • People distributing blanket and clothes for the night. In the centre of Johannesburg the Central Methodist Church offer a shelter to a large number, around 3000, of immigrant, most of them from Zimbabwe. Every day around 300 Zimbabweans cross the border entering in South Africa. Despite the precarious conditions the Church became a reference point for the ones that entering in the country have to face new difficulties.
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  • In the centre of Johannesburg the Central Methodist Church offer a shelter to a large number, around 3000, of immigrant, most of them from Zimbabwe. Every day around 300 Zimbabweans cross the border entering in South Africa. Despite the precarious conditions the Church became a reference point for the ones that entering in the country have to face new difficulties.
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  • Simbarushe Nyamuziva (16 years old) arrived in 2008 in South Africa travelling on a bus. Now he is attending to some class organized inside the church.
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  • Clothes of the people living in the church hanged on to dry. In the centre of Johannesburg the Central Methodist Church offer a shelter to a large number, around 3000, of immigrant, most of them from Zimbabwe. Every day around 300 Zimbabweans cross the border entering in South Africa. Despite the precarious conditions the Church became a reference point for the ones that entering in the country have to face new difficulties.
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  • Farouk arrived in Johannesburg from Zimbabwe 4 days before this photo was shoot with his wife and his 3 years old son. He is a former book keeper and he hope to use his skills to find a job in South Africa.
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  • Farouk arrived in Johannesburg from Zimbabwe 4 days before this photo was shoot with his wife and his 3 years old son. He is a former book keeper and he hope to use his skills to find a job in South Africa.
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  • James Nyandoro (30 years old) was doing the mechanic in Zimbabwea before coming to Johannesburg at the beginning of 2009. From them to March 2010 he lived in the church. At the time he crossed the border at Musina crossing the Limpopo River. As many others he is waiting for the document that will allow him to stay in South Africa.
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  • Mrs and Mr Hove arrived in South Africa from Zimbabwe in 2007 crossing the river that separate the two countries, since then they are living in the church. Their house in Zimbabwe was destroyed by the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front. A part the baby girl in the photo they have other 4 children living with them in the church.
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  • Isacc was a professional a administrator in Zimbabwe. For political reasons he has had to leave his country and he arrived in South Africa in January 2010.
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  • Farouk arrived in Johannesburg from Zimbabwe 4 days before this photo was shoot with his wife and his 3 years old son. He is a former book keeper and he hope to use his skills to find a job in South Africa.
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  • Martin Masivandumby is living in the church. In 2008 the asylum as refugee has been given to him.
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  • A view of the entrance and of the main stair of the church, early in the morning during the cleaning made by voluteers. During the day the church host only the teenagers, and the kids with their mothers while the other adult are not allowed to stay inside.
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  • immigrants that sleep in the church assist to the mass of Bishop Paul Verryn. Bishop Paul Verryn opened the doors of the Central Methodist Church to thousands of immigrants in the last years keeping them open also during the xenophobic attacks of 2008. The church is now considered a safe place for refugee and immigrants.
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  • In few years the number of people that sleep in the church increase significantly. Every space is used to accommodate needed persons, the luckier ones can sleep on a mattress.
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  • Some of the rooms of the Central Methodist Church are reserved just for women. The decision to keep Women, families and Children separate from the rest of the men came after some rumours of children and women abuse was published in same newspapers.
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  • A view of the entrance of the church. During the day most of the people went out from the church but during the night a entire world living, the people that live in the church started to do some commerce to sell food to the others that cannot cook by themself.
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  • Taimon Rukini (36 years old, left) and a friend of him are from Zimbabwe and he is blind, even if he doesn’t sleep in the church he receive economical support from the Central Methodist Church.
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  • Zimbabweans that preferred to stay anonymous is preparing for the night in a corridor of the Central Methodist Church.
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  • A view of the church stairs. At the beginning of the night the people start to arrive at the Central Methodist Church to find a place where to sleep inside the building.
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  • Some of the rooms of the Central Methodist Church are reserved just for women. The decision to keep Women, families and Children separate from the rest of the men came after some rumours of children and women abuse was published in same newspapers.
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  • The upper floor of the main room of the Central Methodist Church is reserved to women with children. During the night the door of this area are locked for security reasons.
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  • This girl said she arrived 2 days before the photo was shoot.  He hopes to find quickly a job to be able to leave the church.
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  • In the centre of Johannesburg the Central Methodist Church offer a shelter to a large number, around 3000, of immigrant, most of them from Zimbabwe. The Church in an entire world where the life is intense, it is not only about sleeping but also cooking ans selling things.
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  • A view of a corridor of the church. Around 2000 people sleep in the floor of the church, mainly in the corridors and in the entrance.
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  • In few years the number of people that sleep in the church increase significantly. Every space is used to accommodate needed persons, the luckier ones can sleep on a mattress.
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  • The celebration of Mahomet birthday is an important event of the Islamic tradition. Keeping the tradition from one generation to the other, the Muslims women of Cape Town celebrate it cutting lemon and orange tree leaves that will gift to the men of the community. The particularity of the ceremony is that only the women can participate to the cutting of the leaves while the men of the community pray in one other room. The only “men” that are allowed are the children that still didn’t reach the puberty.
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  • The celebration of Mahomet birthday is an important event of the Islamic tradition. Keeping the tradition from one generation to the other, the Muslims women of Cape Town celebrate it cutting lemon and orange tree leaves that will gift to the men of the community. The particularity of the ceremony is that only the women can participate to the cutting of the leaves while the men of the community pray in one other room. The only “men” that are allowed are the children that still didn’t reach the puberty.
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  • The celebration of Mahomet birthday is an important event of the Islamic tradition. Keeping the tradition from one generation to the other, the Muslims women of Cape Town celebrate it cutting lemon and orange tree leaves that will gift to the men of the community. The particularity of the ceremony is that only the women can participate to the cutting of the leaves while the men of the community pray in one other room. The only “men” that are allowed are the children that still didn’t reach the puberty.
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  • The celebration of Mahomet birthday is an important event of the Islamic tradition. Keeping the tradition from one generation to the other, the Muslims women of Cape Town celebrate it cutting lemon and orange tree leaves that will gift to the men of the community. The particularity of the ceremony is that only the women can participate to the cutting of the leaves while the men of the community pray in one other room. The only “men” that are allowed are the children that still didn’t reach the puberty.
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  • The celebration of Mahomet birthday is an important event of the Islamic tradition. Keeping the tradition from one generation to the other, the Muslims women of Cape Town celebrate it cutting lemon and orange tree leaves that will gift to the men of the community. The particularity of the ceremony is that only the women can participate to the cutting of the leaves while the men of the community pray in one other room. The only “men” that are allowed are the children that still didn’t reach the puberty.
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  • Three women cut orange and lemon leavs during the celebration of the birthday of Mahomet. The celebration of Mahomet birthday is an important event of the Islamic tradition. Keeping the tradition from one generation to the other, the Muslims women of Cape Town celebrate it cutting lemon and orange tree leaves that will gift to the men of the community. The particularity of the ceremony is that only the women can participate to the cutting of the leaves while the men of the community pray in one other room. The only “men” that are allowed are the children that still didn’t reach the puberty.
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  • The celebration of Mahomet birthday is an important event of the Islamic tradition. Keeping the tradition from one generation to the other, the Muslims women of Cape Town celebrate it cutting lemon and orange tree leaves that will gift to the men of the community. The particularity of the ceremony is that only the women can participate to the cutting of the leaves while the men of the community pray in one other room. The only “men” that are allowed are the children that still didn’t reach the puberty.
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  • A member of the mosque with her kid is looking outside from the main door. The celebration of Mahomet birthday is an important event of the Islamic tradition. Keeping the tradition from one generation to the other, the Muslims women of Cape Town celebrate it cutting lemon and orange tree leaves that will gift to the men of the community. The particularity of the ceremony is that only the women can participate to the cutting of the leaves while the men of the community pray in one other room. The only “men” that are allowed are the children that still didn’t reach the puberty.
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  • The celebration of Mahomet birthday is an important event of the Islamic tradition. Keeping the tradition from one generation to the other, the Muslims women of Cape Town celebrate it cutting lemon and orange tree leaves that will gift to the men of the community. The particularity of the ceremony is that only the women can participate to the cutting of the leaves while the men of the community pray in one other room. The only “men” that are allowed are the children that still didn’t reach the puberty.
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  • Men pray in aseparate room respect the women. The celebration of Mahomet birthday is an important event of the Islamic tradition. Keeping the tradition from one generation to the other, the Muslims women of Cape Town celebrate it cutting lemon and orange tree leaves that will gift to the men of the community. The particularity of the ceremony is that only the women can participate to the cutting of the leaves while the men of the community pray in one other room. The only “men” that are allowed are the children that still didn’t reach the puberty.
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  • The celebration of Mahomet birthday is an important event of the Islamic tradition. Keeping the tradition from one generation to the other, the Muslims women of Cape Town celebrate it cutting lemon and orange tree leaves that will gift to the men of the community. The particularity of the ceremony is that only the women can participate to the cutting of the leaves while the men of the community pray in one other room. The only “men” that are allowed are the children that still didn’t reach the puberty.
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