Scavenging for a scrap to eat in the place of dirt and garbage

04 October 2015 - 02:00
By LUCKY BIYASE

Sifiso Mgidi lives differently from other boys his age. For the past six years, the 15-year-old, who dropped out of school, has made his way every day to a rubbish dump, where he makes a living salvaging recyclable objects to sell, sometimes without any luck."I had to drop out of school because I didn't have school shoes and we had little to eat at home.

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