Rural Community near Centocow
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This rural community of Zulu speaking people still maintain a measure of tradition in their lifestyles. Although modern materials are used in construction, many people still live in thatched rondawels, or round huts, and raise livestock at the foothills of the rolling hills and mountains of the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands.
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Text by Steve Smith.
