Special Report Transcript Episode 55, Section 4, Time 15:00

On the farms for example the children were violated by being used as labourers in the lands of the people that were on the farms that is the owners of the farms. Children had to work, some of them as early as ten years old were ploughing and reaping and weeding in the fields were the order of the day for the people living on the farms. During the winter months, in May, the teachers and the children routinely went to the lands of the owner of the farm. He was the school manager, to go and pick up peanuts and reap them from the fields, put them into bags, ready to be taken to the markets. The boys were forced to work on the farm. They had to work shifts. Working for the family on a farm, the family would be told to leave the farm. If the sons went to the urban areas the entire family would be told to leave the farm and follow their children.

Notes: Ellen Gaberone

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