In order to make a living many people opt to leave their rural homes for cities or mines where they can earn an income to send back to their waiting families. This is the reality of migrant labour. South Africa Online ® explores the migrant labour trends in South Africa, as well as the lives of migrant labourers and the ones they leave behind.
There has been a change in the tidal nature of migration in and out of Lesotho: the number of Basotho miners has dropped from 100 000 to jus...
The following story of demonstrates the kind of economic decisions made in a rural Lesotho household, with a husband who works as a migrant ...
Money is not the only kind of resource that gets funnelled back and forth along migration routes – although, globally, cash remittances no...
The life of living in a home so far away from home is the story of over a century of migrant, mostly black, labourers who the mines have bee...
Unskilled labourers migrating between their homes and distant places of work is the bedrock upon which southern Africa’s economies are bui...
It is Sunday afternoon, and Thabiso the pastor has shed his dog collar and white tunic. Now he is smart and formal....
After nearly three decades on the mines, Thabiso has worked his way up to stope leader – the man who heads the team that prepares the rock...
Mapheello’s story is like so many other women of Lesotho: their men go off to the mines. It is just how it is. Her father was out there in...