Portrait of a pregnant mother standing on a gravel road outside an informal township house, Grahamstown, South Africa

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A pregnant mother, having left her toddler son, stands on the road outside the informal house of the boy's grandmother. She is looking up the road at her husband. This tin shack view of townships is changing as the number of government improved and privately upgraded houses increases, the government's target being the eradication of all informal township houses by 2014.

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Size: 3465px × 5218px
Location: Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, Republic of South Africa
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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