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I recently spent some time at the Elim Night Shelter in Elsie’s Rivier documenting some of the residents there. I was surprised to find many of those staying at the homeless shelter were white. It is a commonly held perception that it is only blacks/coloureds in South Africa who make up the homeless population, but with the change in economic climate this is also changing.
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A selection of my work will be shown at the “Twenty Ten on the road” exhibition, which presents a selection of work created by the Twenty Ten journalists prior to and during the World Cup.
Click here to see features from the project and for more information about Twenty Ten go to:
The exhibition is open to the public from 19 November – 28 November 2010.
Venue: Paulaner Brauhaus
Clocktower Square
V&A Waterfront
Cape Town
Fans on the train on their way home after the Argentina vs Germany Quarter Final - FIFA World Cup 2010 - at the Green Point stadium in Cape Town, South Africa
Young Ghanian football players jogging in the early morning, which is part of their football training at the Kwahu Tafo Village in Mpraeso, a town 3 hours journey north of Accra in Ghana. The Football Academy was established to train local children to improve their fitness and football skills. Many of the children come from underprivileged homes from the surrounding area. The majority of the children live in a hostel in Kwahu Tafo.
Alina Thonjeni, 69 years old sits in her bedroom in front of a mirrored dressing table. She is a single mother to four children has exactly the sort of entrepreneurial spirit necessary to benefit from the influx of tourists associated with the World Cup. She retired from her job in order to convert her modest but well-kept home in Alexandra township, Johannesburg, into a guesthouse. She hopes to provide a viable, cost-effective alternative to the mainstream hotels and their massively inflated prices for the 2010 World Cup.
Amanda Nkosi, 35 a single mother of 2 has been living in Mataffin community her whole life. On her way back from work she was shot in the leg by the police, during a protest against the children having to be taught in unventilated prefab school. She was in hospital for nearly 6 months and lost her job because of this. She is currently unemployed and disabled and struggles to support her family. She has made a claim against the police but nothing has come of this. She said it is hard to be happy about the world cup and having the stadium in Mataffin as it has only brought her misery in Nelspruit in Mpumalanga, South Africa.
