This is the living room in the house where I was born in 1972. We are 13 people living here now. Only four of us have jobs or run businesses and support the others. I lived here the first time until I was 18 and got married. I was divorced in 1999 and then I moved back again. I have now been able to buy myself a plot and hope I can afford to build a house of my own. It would be good to have my own place. I love my parents but we live too close.
Photograph and story by Telma Monjonte, cross border trader in Maputo, Mozambique
Experience of this border
Location of border
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Maputo, Maputo City, Mozambique