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            Home of Peace Tries to Save Mentally Ill in South Africa

   by Darren Taylor

   It's just a circle of simple mud huts with roofs of thatch and floors
   of dung, in a mist-shrouded valley among rolling hills near the village
   of Hobeni in South Africa's Eastern Cape province. But for the
   residents, Ikhaya Loxolo, 'Home of Peace,' is a paradise of love and
   acceptance, where they feel worthy, in contrast to the world beyond its
   fences, where they're generally despised. In this underdeveloped area,
   in the former Transkei homeland, where a racist government once tried
   to confine Xhosa people, nine out of ten adults are unemployed and one
   in four is infected with HIV. Tarred roads are rare, as are hospitals
   and clinics.
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