Portrait of a boy toddler standing in the open doorway of a tin shack in the townships of Grahamstown, South Africa

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From the window of the car driven by my guide, I caught this boy toddler standing in the doorway of an informal township house, looking anxiously at his mother after being left with his grandma. In the ceiling behind the boy a solitary electric lightbulb hangs over a wooden chair, by a curtain dividing up the sparse interior. An increasing number of affluent houses is changing the traditional tin shack view of South african townships.

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Size: 3465px × 5218px
Location: Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, Republic of South Africa
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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