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Inside the life of a child bride

12 November 2017 - 00:02

By TASCHICA PILLAY and LWANDILE BHENGU

Dressed in an isidwaba, a traditional skirt, bride-to-be Sindiswa Mswane, 17, is shy as she steps out of the one-room house she will live in for the next six months.

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