Highland people of Lesotho 1998

Frazers Supermarket, Thaba Tseka, central highlands.

On monday, horsemen come from miles around to pick up supplies from the town supermarket.

Watercolour on handmade paper 70/50 cm
by Simon Bird - sold

Herd Boy, Thaba Tseka, central highlands.

Forfeiting school to become a herdsman. Family pressures still say looking after live stock is priority.

Watercolour on handmade paper 70/50 cm
by Simon Bird - sold

Picture by local herd boy.

African guitar, Thaba Tseka.

Home made guitar fashioned from an old 'Sunseed Oil' can, wood and fishing wire. This music group work at the allotments which supply the school with vegetables.

Watercolour on handmade paper 70/50 cm
by Simon Bird - sold

Picture by local.

Thaba Tseka bus station.

Luckily for me buses in Lesotho only leave when their full.

Watercolour on handmade paper 50/70 cm
by Simon Bird - sold

Picture by local people

Ma Ma Constance, Port St Johns , South Africa.

She tells me she use to work as a nanny for a white family in Durban, and was sad to leave. She was a confident character and spoke her mind clearly apartite. She simpathised with the whites for the difficulties they faced with giving up a country they had worked for.

Watercolour on handmade paper 50/70 cm
by Simon Bird £100

Picture by local old lady.