Chapter 7 - Life Experience in the Rural Areas

I had a friend called Masali. She was very fond of me. We did a lot of things together. There was a game we enjoyed playing together. The game was called kgwele. The game was more like hockey. We played it in veld using round wood and a wooden stick.

Masali and I used to grind mealies on big rocks using small manageable rocks to grind with.  My hands used to get blisters initially, but I got used to it as time went on.  We also used wooden poles to grind mealies until finely ground into mealie meal. Picking wild fruits and vegetables was one of my favourite pastimes.

Our regular food was sour milk and porridge.  My mom used to send money so that my grandmother may buy this milk.  There was a farm nearby where this milk was sold. My brother used to go to buy from the farmer.

My grandmother was untidy; she would keep our food where cockroaches would get into our food. Before we ate, we had to first remove the cockroaches.

My grandparent's house was made up of...

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Rose and her paternal grandmother, Magdeline Rakoma, who used to be very strict.