photos and text by Bongani Nkosi Scan the crowds at any major football match in South Africa and what will immediately stand out are the elaborately carved and colourfully decorated plastic hard hats settled on fans’ heads. Known as the makarapa – isiXhosa for the migrant workers who wore hard hats on the mines – […]

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