Siphumelele Zondi
Last week I
was in the area of Nottingham Road in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands and I met an
old man who inherited a massive farm in 1990, he has built a hotel in a certain
part of his farm, donated a huge chunk of land to the Crane Foundation and has
built decent four-bedroomed homes for families he says his ancestors found on
the land over a hundred years ago. He also does a great job in ensuring that
indigenous ways of the Zulu people are promoted and even has a Zulu traditional
healer in his hotel spa. But it’s the land that made me think, it mainly made
me think long and hard because I spoke to the man’s son who said he went to the
extremely expensive Michaelhouse College which is nearby, he also told me that
his sons also go to Michaelhouse. After he had
told me this I then observed that a lot of black kids in the area walk for long
distances to school. Winter mornings in Nottingham Road are extremely cold.
