Johannesburg!

Hi there!

I have finally arrived in the big city. It's amazing how different this place is from home. It's so full and everybody seems to be in a rush. It's very busy. It seems like everybody is late for something. No one is laid back and I have had time to look around since I am waiting for the people with information about my sister and her kids.

I don't believe I waited over 30 minutes for these guys to arrive. They don't even apologise for being late all they say is that if I must get a cell phone apparently it will make my life very easy and they can organise it for me as they know someone who knows someone. But it will cost me R500.00. I told them I will think about is as I am trying to use the money I have wisely. If I find my sister I must buy bus tikets for 4 people from South Africa to Zimbabwe. I take them to a coffee shop where we sit and talk.

Firstly the information I want is going to cost me R500.00 and if I add R200.00 they can give me the exact address of where she is. Because I am desperate I give them the R500.00 for now and I will listen to what they have to say. What ever happened to helping a fellow country man out of the goodness of your heart.I guess everybody is hear to make money. Anyways apparently my sister was staying at the central Methodist church and she left there when things took a turn for the worst. The little boy got sick and he wasn't getting better and she decided she was going to look for domestic work so that she can take him to a doctor.( A qualified teacher looking for domestic work)

She left the church and went to the northern suburbs and she had a job. She rented a shack from a South African woman who she also paid to look after the kids while she was gone to work. She worked for 8 months at this house until they were burgled and when her employers found out that the guys that broke into the house were from Zimbabwe she was fired and they even laid charges against her which were later dropped when they found out that she was not involved. Now she couldn't afford to pay rent for the shack and there was no food so she went to the street and she is apparently begging in the streets. She was last seen in Northcliff.

I ask myself why doesn't she come back home! If things are so bad. So I have decided that I will give these guys the extra R200.00 and they must take me to Northcliff so I can look for my sister. Now I am wondering is she still alive? How are the kids are they still all alive? What have they eaten today?