3 year old Zikhona, she has no clear understanding of the world but she is slowly beginning the process of making meaning of it.

It was a Wednesday, the 343^rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar, under the Sagittarius sign. The sky was tar black and the large clouds were moving towards each other, spitting beads of water which fell softly on mother nature; as though foreshadowing the birth of a female child.  In this year, R’Kelly’s I’m your angel topped music charts in the United States. The socialist party of Azania (SOPA) was founded. Voortrekkershoogte was renamed Thaba Tshwane. Local newspapers were filled with headlines of a pipe bomb that exploded at Cape Town’s Victoria and Alfred’s Waterfront’s Planet Hollywood restaurant, seriously injuring 26 people. South Africa supported the intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo by Namibia, Zimbabwe and Angola in support of Kabila. Former Umkhonto weSizwe member and Senior Foreign Affairs Minister, Robert McBride was conditionally released from prison in Mozambique after being held for spying and gun-running. Bulelani Ngcuka was elected as National Director of Prosecutions. Theunis Swanepoel, the policeman who gave the order to open fire on Soweto uprising protesters, died without confessing. The Black-Tie Ensemble was founded by Mimi Coertse and Neels Hansen.