Karabo Tsoaledi* wakes up at 3.30am to get ready for her 6am shift. She fills her kettle from the tap outside and then pours the water into her washing dish. In winter, she lights the coal stove to warm up the four-roomed house she shares with her daughter, her older sister, three nephews and her father. “Do you know how cold it gets in Bethlehem? Sometimes it feels like minus 10, and the taps are always frozen. It even snows sometimes,” she said. Tsoaledi never finished matric and is now employed as a security guard at the Bethlehem magistrate’s court. She shakes her head and her dreadlocks brush against her face: “Yah, neh, I haven’t been paid in three months....
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