ALWINUS MRALASI
My son, thank you  - thank you, Bishop.  So I pay - I kept  my son at school after I was discharged  and that time we used to use slates.  In 1968 my son was doing Sub B and he used to write on a slate with a pencil and so he went on with his studies until he got to Standard 6 and I could not pay for his fees.
And then he decided to go to Cape Town to my nephew's who live in Langa.  Then I heard that he had got a job at - in Claremont so he went to work there in Claremont for a long time - he worked there.  And he was quiet - not writing any letters to us.  Then one day I decided to get onto the train and I got my son there and I asked him why he was so quiet and then he gave me a letter  where it was stated - it was a book where everything - his expenditures and income were written.
Then I said to him  This does not work.  I actually want to see your bank book,  and he did show it to me and at that time he had saved R600.00.  Then I asked him what he was going to do with the money.  Then he said the following week he intended packing and going home and going back to school and he  [indistinct] did exactly that.  He brought the money with him and we decided to go and make a loan of money and we got R400-00.
Those days it was not very expensive to pay in schools because we added this R400-00 to the R600-00 that he had, to make R1,000-00 and I asked him whether he wanted to go back to school.  So he stated the time when he wanted to go back to school.  And then there was another daughter of mine who also wanted to go to a school in Fort Beaufort - a certain school in Fort Beaufort she wanted to go to is Thubaleto High School, which is a  [indistinct] College thing.
So we decided to make this effort and we got the loan, I drove them to Fort Beaufort and they went into this school.  So that is where my son got his education.  He spent two years there and he said it was not good for him in Allies.  He wanted to go to the Cape College in Western Cape, so I agreed.  There was no problem with the books and so he transferred to the Western Cape  and he went on studying.
We were going up and down trying to collect money, trying to channel moneys to the various schools.  We were eating dry porridge with water and sugar, trying to save and keep them in school.  Then it happened in - one day we were invited to a graduation ceremony, and so went there by train and up to Beaufort West because there had been accident with the train.
Then there was a bus.  We boarded the bus to Cape Town and went to another relative of ours.  We stayed there for the days and this particular morning we saw Joos sitting there.  I still have a clear picture and I can see him dressed in his regalia - academic regalia.  Today he has - he is studying his LL.B., he has studied his LL.B. and he is working in Aliwal North.  That is my son - that is our son.  Thank you.