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An open township field in South Africa on a clear late-autumn morning in April 1994: pale bleached grass and bare red earth, a low corrugated-iron school building with a tin roof, scattered gum trees, a water tank on a stand, distant small houses. the queue's head ends at the rope barrier directly in front of the awning and table. the elderly woman stands within the same line, a few people back from the barrier. the awning is pitched against the schoolhouse wall beside its open door. The queue runs several hundred metres before reaching one trestle table; people at the far end of the field are smaller than the school's window openings. 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