Inter Press Service: To the casual passer-by, Petrus Kabaliso and his wife Cynthia present a disarmingly rustic sight, seated as they are under the shade of a date palm at a truck stop in the scorching Karoo desert, in South Africa`s Northern Cape province, a battered umbrella held jauntily over their heads.
"We find it very hard to live here," Petrus, 59, tells IPS. "We find old metal, and sometimes the trucks that stop here leave bottles in the rubbish. We can change this for money, and buy pap [maize meal porridge]...