Dressed in a black skirt and a white shirt, hair nicely combed. Anele Banele an Information Technology graduate Rushes down the stairs of Metro rail train station, trying to board an 8 am train to Cape Town.
Banele is a Born-again Christian from the Eastern Cape, She came here to pursue her dreams of owning an IT company.
Time and again she looks at her silver and gold watch “I am so late, I should be in town already.”
“Anele” will be meeting a group of friends for a Human Rights Day party that she and her friends are organising. The party is specially made for children with disabilities. “I was raised by a single mother and she literally struggled to raise us.”
She calmly picks her cerise pink cell phone to tell her friends that she is running late. Anele tells me what makes her a patriot. “All my life I wanted to do something that will put a smile on someone’s face, and living in South Africa that is not so hard because my government can provide me with all that I need.”
“With a planed and well structured idea, I can persuade any relevant government official to back my plan, if have attended government organised seminars and we are told not be afraid to ask them for assistance as they are here to serve us.
We arrive in Cape Town and Anele hurries to Gardens where her friends are waiting for her. Three girls all wearing black and white greets and hug her. The other one starts to point to brown branch chair under a tree suggesting we should all take a sit.
While brainstorming, a tall and dark guy with a Teko Modise cut interrupts and apologise for being late. He quickly opens his bag and takes a black laptop, “I hve set a meeting with the events manager and I think we should all go” he said
For few seconds the girls did not say a word and it was crystal clear that they did not expect the meeting to be over so soon. Anele saves them time and said “I thought this meeting was about us helping the kids not spending money.”
After hours and hours of disagreements the group finally agreed on something and said the theme of the party will be “proudly south African”.
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