Guardians of Grail

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For the past few years I've equated a good quality of life with the chance to write - it's my attempt at creativity, and no time to write means no time to reflect, and to fashion something unique out of those reflections. Summarising my blogging achievements over the past two years,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I have posted a total of nine entries. Indeed, the last entry was sixteen months ago!
I shan't bore you with intricate interim goings-on, other than to say that life had assumed a regular rhythm, and with almost two years spent in the Pietermaritzburg Department of Anaesthesia/Critical Care,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I felt it was time for a new challenge. These two years had afforded me more opportunities than I could have ever hoped for, and so now I find myself looking to apply the skills I have learnt in a different setting.
I incorporated a two month 'sabbatical' into my future plans, and travelled around South Africa,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], taking in the Wild Coast, Grahamstown (and the national arts festival), Nieu Bethesda, Knysna, Johannesburg, Kruger Park,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Kosi Bay, and the Drakensberg.
It was whilst in Nieu Bethesda that I picked up the latest seam of thought that seemed to doggedly cling on long after I had left there. The small village is situated out of the way of any major transport/economic hub,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and as such has stood relatively still in time whilst the remainder of South African towns have acquired staples such as piped water, tarred roads and street lights.
Initially it fooled me into thinking it was completely different to anywhere else in South Africa. However, like any South African settlement, it has a segregated community - on arriving in the dark, punctuated by an occasional paraffin lamp swinging on someone's porch,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I found myself wandering what the source of an eerie glow of electric lights was, a kilometre away. The next day,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], my curiosity got the better of me,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and I found that it was the township next to the village, which seemed to have outstripped the actual village of Nieu Bethesda in size and population. This made me regard the lack of municipal amenities in Nieu Bethesda to be slightly contrived - held back in an effort to retain an age-old feel to the village.
A few days later, I decided to dine at the township, in the house of a middle-aged lady called Antie Evelyn. This was a homely dining experience - probably too much for my sensibilities at that time, as all I wanted to was eat, rather than engage in conversation. However, engage in conversation we did,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and I found out that she had grown up on a local farm, daughter of the farm's housekeeper. Two families lived on the farm - one white, who owned and operated the farm, and the other,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], coloured,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who ensured the smooth passage of the farm's inhabitants through each day.
She reminisced about how good those times had been - the families lived together as one big unit, stockings waiting for all the children on Christmas morning, the health of everyone being a priority. She insisted that her family had been treated very well by the white family,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], even though there was a very clear hierarchical relationship,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and each person knew their place. When the farm closed, and the small community dissolved,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Evelyn had to find her own job in Port Elizabeth, and she suddenly experienced poverty. Worse still, when apartheid ended,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], she and her direct family members were pushed further and further into this state. Religion can also confound the issue - if one sees one's place in Society as something ordained by a God then new freedoms could be even more frightening.
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