Heard a reportage on a maid working for wealthy whites in South Africa. She comes from Soweto where unemployment is 50%. A job is very hard to come by.
"When I started working here they gave me the cabin at the end of the garden. I asked if I could bring my two children. No, the cabin wasn't big enough, they said, I could only bring one. I had to chose. My daughter was starting adolescence and I thought she would need me more. I left behind my son who's 10. I don't understand why I have to be like a mother snake whose babies go and fence for themselves. Like a mother snake I don't take care of my son."
Contributed by - - Arabella Hutter
