EQUALITY,Where are thou?Repost!

  

Hurting on behalf of my older sister

Is color more superior than one's life?

Is color more superior than one's basic needs?

If things were turned around,how would that feel?

Must one never enjoy peace,safety,God's ideal,because of his/her skin color?

 

 

 

How Many Sparrows Are There?

We only bought this house because there were no rentals here. It looks like there are no rentals in the country... For some people.

I'm thinking if we wanted to live in Gugulethu or Langa, we'd not be going through what we're going through. Instead, silly little me wants to live outside Malmesbury, or in Philadelphia, or Tierfontein or Darling.

So what do you start assuming when an agent tells you that a house is not worth viewing because you have to enter through the scullery? And why doesn't she respond back when you tell her that you enter through the scullery in the current house you own so it's no big deal? 

What must you assume when they start to make arrangements for a viewing, but when you say your name is Thandi, they write to tell you the house has been taken? What do you do when they say they'll call you back to make an appointment but never do? Or they tell you they will quickly call their tenants to find a suitable time and a month later, after you've even called and texted, tenant is allegedly not giving them a time?

What is it like to think, "Hmm, should I take my husband's cooler-looking car so it's easier to see we can afford it?"

I have taken to traveling with my husband's payslip, just to prove to them-if it ever gets that far-that we're able to afford it. Hey, our money's the same colour. It's never gotten that far. No-one has ever picked us. Though to be fair, maybe the Darling agent might have picked us but the timing was wrong. And the one smallholding place might have also taken us but we couldn't take it. (Not safe for babies.)

What do you do when some don't respond at all? Do you follow up, or leave it? Or what if they respond like this? (Emphasis mine)

"Hi Thandi

Thank you for your enquiry.  At the moment the owner of the property has overseas friends in the house that is staying until the end of April 2016 but may extend their stay in SA.

I will let you know when the property becomes available again.

Kind regards

Elsa Dauth | Rental Agent | NQF4 PAM GOLDING PROPERTIES (PTY) LTD 218 Main Road, Paarl, Western Cape, 7646 Tel: +27 (21) 8711480 Fax: +27 (21) 8724848 Cell: +27 (71) 3032340"

So, the property is not available till MAYBE end of April. But I should wait for her to tell me once these friends decide if they're staying or not.

And yet the ad stayed up. What do you do as the weeks go by and still the ad is on their website? No change in info. No change to the occupation date, that says "immediate."

 What do you do? You ask your white friend to call them to ask about it.

Then she calls you back.

And tells you, "I think it's bad news."

And she tells you what you suspected but didn't want to believe, because it means even the appointment you made for tomorrow might very well be useless. After all, you made sure you didn't give your name. But as soon as she sees you, the game would be over and all you'd have is an empty fuel tank.

She tells you that the agent said THE HOUSE IS AVAILABLE. And that tomorrow she wouldn't be in the office, but Thursday morning at ten am, they could go view it.

The property is available. April has only just begun.

As that sank in, I started to cry.

It's one thing to rejoice that I'm leaving this place but I might not actually find another place to move to. I'm either going to be homeless, or move to a place we don't want to move to, just out of desperation.

All we want is to live in the country. All we've ever wished for, prayed for, longed for, was land that we could call ours. Land in a quiet place, no pollution, no noisy neighbours. Just me and my children during the day planting our fruits and vegetables while trying to balance homeschool and two crazy babies.

Is this what Penny Sparrow did to potential clients? Did she lie to them too if their names were Ntombi, Zodwa or Thandi?

May this day hasten:

Isaiah 65:21-22New International Version (NIV)

²¹ They will build houses and dwell in them;
    they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
²² No longer will they build houses and others live in them,
    or plant and others eat.
For as the days of a tree,
    so will be the days of my people;
my chosen ones will long enjoy
    the work of their hands.