Elise Radipodi had been seeing her daughter Karabo everywhere since she went silent, even while she was on night shift at Helen Joseph public hospital.

Nanda’s padava was one of the first to be swept away, and while his wife chased after it, he had hung back, standing under an upturned umbrella. 

A half hour later, she tip toed past the chowkidar’s chair as he stood in the garden, cigarette in hand, flirting with the cook.

Portrait of late Black actor of TV and film, Beah Richards by self-taught artist, Miss Lillie B. West courtesy of author Nikky Finney.

Jenny and her spiritual talk. She was always searching for meaning in everything, especially when it came to animals and nature. She got her information from these cards she bought at a new-age store in Toombul. It was run by an old woman with dreadlocks, had rows upon rows of crystals and the whole place smelled of incense.

If she came up with a six-foot tall white man, Manmie would officially flip her shit and later tell Daddy and Matante, “Vonnie, sans announce, bring a white man to my house.”