'You have to ask for permission to enter the cemetery': a community sold to Australians

By Eryk Bagshaw
Updated September 10 2017 - 5:08pm, first published 5:01pm
9/9/17 Franicina Nkosi, of Women Affected by Mining United in Action and Waterberg Women Advocacy Organisation from Lephale, South Africa. Photograph by Chris Hopkins
9/9/17 Franicina Nkosi, of Women Affected by Mining United in Action and Waterberg Women Advocacy Organisation from Lephale, South Africa. Photograph by Chris Hopkins

Francina Nkosi chose to live in Lephalale because of the farmland. There was enough space to raise her daughter and as many women as there were men, a rarity in parts of the Limpopo province of South Africa.

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