Joseph tends the garden Malan's houseOn friday
evening, Mr. Malan smokes his pipe and hands
Joseph his pay packet.They discuss the
roses.Mrs.Malan has a parcel of nearly new
clothes for him and his family.The Malan's
children play around the pool.Joseph's wife and
child are five hundred miles in Kwazulu.Joseph
makes a cup of tea in the kitchen.He takes it out
to his concrete shed at the back of the house.He
seets on his steel bed.It is the weekend.Tonight
he will get drunk in a shebeen.It will be many
months until he sees his family.It has been many
months.
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