Mpilo's Diary

Mpilo was nine when his father left to toil in the bowels of the earth in Johannesburg, and every Christmas he and his sister Pinky would await his return at the bus stop. They would watch as other migrant fathers arrive to the embrace of their wives and children. Their father was never amongst them.

Fast-forward nine years, Milo and his siblings toil alongside their mother Thulisile, under the scorching sun at Baas Willemse's farm in Mnambithi. Milo and his sisters, Confidence and Pinky, th...