LYN MOTOKO MASETLA
My sister, as I've said because of the fact that she was the eldest and she felt like more of a mother, she behaved like more a mother to all of us.  She assumed that position and that was also clear with the children's neighbours or any other child that was younger than her that needed to be looked after.  And as a result our house ended up not just being a family house only, any other child that she would come across on the street, the child that is hungry, she would look after that child or start cooking, do all those things.
	But also it sums it up, the very fact that she looked after me as a mother, being the baby of the family and the very fact that when she took me to eSikhawini, she was my mother there.  She looked after me and anything that I needed I got from her.  The very fact that she even helped in schooling my brother, who then went to - proceeded with his education to high school level.  He went to boarding school.  All those responsibilities she assumed them to relieve my mother from them.