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more to do with my surname being attached to the man who until recently had been one of South Africa’s most wanted terrorists. Suddenly the choice had been narrowed to no choice at all, so Saheti it was.

      Driving through the school gates, to meet the principal, my nerves were on edge. The school seemed enormous, much bigger then Prep and even bigger then Machabeng High School in Lesotho, which was the biggest school I had ever seen. Both my parents and I walked into Mr Armstrong’s mahogany-wooded office. The three of them discussed me as though I wasn’t there – especially my academic history at Prep. Then the headmaster’s piercing eyes framed by little spectacles finally settled on me. Quite out of the blue, he said, “So, young lady, what is 7x7?”

      For a moment that stretched into eternity, I went completely blank and froze. I began to furiously calculate the numbers on my fingers under the table – a method I still use today! I finally blurted out, “49!” The entire room sighed with relief but not as loudly as I. Mr Armstrong promptly said: “Welcome to Saheti.” That was it. Two numbers timed by each other – my entrance exam to my new academic life.

      Once all the excitement of a new school, new country, new home settled down, it suddenly became real that I would have to leave Maseru and all my friends. I was well and truly devastated. There was some small part of me that believed that we would continue living in Lesotho, except that Daddy would join us. Now we were moving to South Africa – actually, to be clear, I was the only child moving to South Africa. Momo was already studying in Cape Town and Khwezi, as usual, dug in her heels and insisted that she stay at Machabeng High, where she would become a boarder. I was devastated that I hadn’t been afforded a choice like my older sister had. I mean, what fuckery was this?

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