This is Rose (appropriately enough). She is both the Rose of Rosebank and Soweto. She demanded that I give her R50 for taking her picture. If I wasn't marginally wealthier I might have been able to meet this price. Rose is one of those people who must now pay that little bit more (which is a lot more for them now) just to get here by minibus, and more for bread and milk, electricity and all the rest. The money people give to the poor tends to get less when costs go up, which makes survival doubly hard.
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