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FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND

I begin this blog in memory of my loving great grandmother, the beautiful Sikhonzeni Khanye Ndiweni who passed away 4 years ago on the 18th of November 2014 at age 99 and was buried on the 20th November 2014 Dearest great grandmother. Intombi yaseMgadla, UmSotho'muhle, uMwelase owawela ngezihlenge... She was my security growing up in Zimbabwe's rural Kezi . I knew as long as she was there everything will be alright and that i needed not to worry. On Fridays, she would come to my primary school and ask the headmaster and class teacher to release me so I would accompany her to the clinic and shops (p.s they never said no either because she was so convincing or they were just kind to her because of her age) and my grade six teacher, Mr Mpofu started calling me by her surname "MaKhanye" because of her fondness for me. Whenever I saw her through classroom windows as she entered the school premises i would joyfully start telling my friends "goodbye, see you on ...