Many thousands of South African children live in homes with no parents, largely as a result of HIV/Aids. Life is desperate for the children left at the head of their families.
At the age of 10, Nokubonga Qaba was left with the daunting responsibility of raising her four younger siblings in a remote village in Eastern Cape Province.
Now aged 17, she says her family knows the pain of going to bed on an empty stomach all too well. “Sometimes there is no food in the house for days and I have to go knocking on neighbours’ doors begging for food for my family,” she says. “Sometimes they give, sometimes they don’t.”
Her plight is not unique in South Africa. About 150,000 youngsters are raised by other children after their parents die…
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