Dyuba, 84 has been a teacher since 1968 and who is awaiting retirement. Photos: AFP
They are past 70 and sometimes even 100 years old. Many civil servants in the Democratic Republic of Congo work until their last days, hoping for a pension and recognition that never comes.
“I would like the state to close my career with honour,” says Bayard Kumwimba Dyuba, 84, a primary school teacher in Lubumbashi, the main town in the south-east of the vast central African country.
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