There are not enough mothers during the day to force the children to go to school and stay there for the… — Sindiwe Magona
There are not enough mothers during the day to force the children to go to school and stay there for the whole day. The mothers are at work. Or they are drunk. Defeated by life. Dead. We die young, these days.
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