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I was at the Komatipoort border to South Africa to buy chicken and pork when I saw this. The passengers had boarded a bus in South Africa that had turned out to be stolen. When the bus crossed the border the theft was discovered by the police and the driver and his assistant was arrested. All the goods had to be taken off the bus and the passengers were stranded just there. Some of them could not afford to go on.

Photograph and story by Palmira Chilaule, cross border trader in Maputu, Mozambique

Experience of this border

Location of border

Maputo, Maputo City, Mozambique