PROUD OF MANENBERG

Growing up or from when I could remember we where struggling. When I was born my mother was living with her aunt in grassy park. However, her aunt also took in other family to and that had its own effects. My mother (Carroll Ann Jansen) didn't get along with the other aunt that also stayed there and decided to leave without knowing where we would stay. My mother was a teacher at the time at a school in Ottery so she didn’t want to move far from there. She didn't get any place to stay and found on the nearby bush there were discarded water pipes and that became our home for a wile i was 2 years at the time. Not long after we moved into our new home. my mother met a lady at the local day hospital and like my mother normally is started talking about her situation. She then dint tell the lady about where we stay but told her that she was looking for a nanny for me and my sister she was 3 1/2 at the time. The lady told my mother that she knew someone that might be willing to look after us during the day. It took people about a month to find out where we stay. The lady that looked after us asked my mom where we stayed and my mother didn’t want to say. The lady then sent her son to follow my mom to find out where we stayed. When she found out where we lived her heart broke for us and invited my mom to come and stay with her. Our second time living with other people. At lease with the water pipe it was ours or that’s what my mother told me.
Till next time