“Am I OK?” he retorts with eyebrows raised. “Children, I bring you the best news in ages! The empty farmhouse on the road to the coast is being taken over by some people with lots of money who want to open a guest house there, and a spaza shop and I don’t know what else. I heard about it last night. Do you know what that means?” Grandfather looks at us expectantly.
Before we can even answer, his excitement gets the better of him, “It means imisebenzi – jobs! There will be work … first for builders and then for those who can work in the guest house to do the cleaning, look after people and also to serve in the shop. Mandi, go quickly to be one of the first there when the jobs are handed out … I heard that the new boss is coming today.”
Even as Tatomkhulu is speaking she has untied her apr
