Hidden Minortiy: South Africa's White Poor

Ian Martin

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Michael Bester, 46, watches planes flying out of Cape Town International Airport while sitting in front of his 'zozo hut,' a sort of rough-hewn wooden shed usually used for storage in South Africa. Bester lives with his wife Kathy, 48, left, and their six children in a small squatter camp in the Cape Flats area of Cape Town. Bester has adult children from a previous marriage who will have nothing to do with him since he married Kathy. Bester attributes their estrangement to Kathy's ethnicity.

Ian Martin, "Hidden Minortiy: South Africa's White Poor," in POYi Archive, Item #44657, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/44657 (accessed November 23, 2024).