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<td height="11"><a name="Anchor-reportage-49575"></a> <font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,Sans Serif">November 2000 </font><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,Sans Serif" color="black"> | </font><a href="../../../Archive/archive.html" target="_top"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,Sans Serif" size="2"><b>Archive </b></font></a><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,Sans Serif" color="black"> | </font><a href="coal_frameset2.html" target="_top"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,Sans Serif" size="2"><b>© Themba Hadebe/AP and reading text </b></font></a><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,Sans Serif" color="black"> | </font><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,Sans Serif" color="black" size="2">To view story please scroll to the right</font></td>
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<pre><font size="4" color="#663300" face="Times,Times New Roman,Georgia,Serif"><i><b>South African photographer Themba Hadebe</b></i></font>
<font size="4" color="#663300" face="Times,Times New Roman,Georgia,Serif"><i><b>followed two brothers, Nhlanhla Khoza </b></i></font>
<font size="4" color="#663300" face="Times,Times New Roman,Georgia,Serif"><i><b>(28) and Sipho Ngema (24), who run a </b></i></font>
<font size="4" color="#663300" face="Times,Times New Roman,Georgia,Serif"><i><b>successful coal delivery business in </b></i></font>
<font size="4" color="#663300" face="Times,Times New Roman,Georgia,Serif"><i><b>Soweto, Johannesburg. They use a horse </b></i></font>
<font size="4" color="#663300" face="Times,Times New Roman,Georgia,Serif"><i><b>and cart and are helped every day by 16 </b></i></font>
<font size="4" color="#663300" face="Times,Times New Roman,Georgia,Serif"><i><b>year old schoolboy, Thembinkosi Hlongwane </b></i></font></pre>
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<font size="3" color="#663300">(Left) </font><font size="3" color="black">The three co-workers drive their cart down the Soweto streets laden with heavy bags of coal. </font><font color="#663300"><i>(Right)</i></font> Sipho, (left in) talks to his brother Nhlanhla while feeding their horses at their home in Zola, Soweto</td>
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<font color="#663300"><i>(Top)</i></font> Thembinkosi, left, and the brothers fill up coal bags in the early morning at the coal suppliers in Soweto. <font color="#663300"><i>(Right)</i> </font>Nhlanhla urges the horse-drawn cart across the main street to avoid speeding cars</td>
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<font color="#663300"><i>(Top)</i> </font>Thembinkosi runs alongside the cart as the brothers hurry to another customer <font color="#663300"><i>(Right)</i></font> Thembinkosi struggles with a bag of coal weighing 35 kilograms while he waits for a customer to open the coal store</td>
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<font color="#663300"><i>(Top)</i></font> The coal cart casts long shadows towards the end of the afternoon shift.<i> <font color="#663300">(Right)</font></i> At the end of a long and tiring day, Nhlanhla leads the stallion Zandile to a grazing field</td>
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