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Zimbabwe's child sugarcane laborers: "I've never been to school"

Children as young as seven are performing backbreaking labor on Zimbabwe's sugarcane plantations, all for just $1 a week in pay. Tapiwa (not his real name), is one such boy who has been working in the fields for the past six months. His parents died in 2017, prompting him to find some form of income to feed himself and his elderly grandmother. “I’ve never been to school. This is all I do,” he told the Guardian. “I am helping my

| Tuesday November 19, 2019
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