Chapter 10Thandi rose early the next morning and dressed before the dawn. Her daughter would be taking the grandchildren to school today. At 5.30 am there was a toot outside her door and she went out to the ageing Volkswagen Kombi.
SS owned the minibus and was behind the wheel. She greeted the others as she climbed in and was welcomed with the smell of coffee from an open flask. Laurel passed her a cup and Baye handed her a box of Ouma rusks. White people’s food was not the best, but it was filling.
Thandi dunked a rusk in her travel cup and then screwed on the lid so as not to spill any coffee as SS set off to do battle with Johannesburg’s morning traffic.
Thandi oscillated between trying to enjoy the fact that someone else was driving for a change and being terrified every time SS cha
