Laluni is a microcosm of many farming communities along the Soesdyke/Linden Highway, where farming has been done for almost four decades by groups of migrants from various parts of the country who went there seeking betterment by transforming idle, arable lands into key centres of agricultural production.
That has not been accomplished. Some of the originally inhabited lands have been abandoned and there are limits to what those who have remained behind have achieved. The survivors insist that their real accomplishment reposes in the fact that they have endured.
The more than 500 people who have made Laluni home are a