Index World Press Photo
July 2010 | Edition Fourteen     




Freddie Pieterson, aka "Fluffy", squeezes through the fencing between the cricket oval and Hamiltons Rugby Club outside Green Point Stadium in Cape Town. The group of homeless poor in this area uses the bushes on the outskirts of the cricket oval to spend their days, do their cooking and then move to the rugby club (seen in the distance in this image) to sleep at night. Pieterson is blind in one eye and can no longer work - this forced him into homelessness in 2004. He hasn't applied for a disability grant from the government.

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