ZULU GIRL LEAVES TO JOIN GERMAN FAMILY
In early August 1978, while working at the Daily News
in Durban, I covered a story about a young Zulu girl from Tongaat on the North
Coast in the KwaZulu-Natal region of
South Africa being chosen to join a German family.
The girl, Miss Gabriella Makhetha, was a matriculation
pupil at a high school in Tongaat at that time. She was 17-years-old.
The story was published under the headline: “Zulu
girl leaves to join German family” on August 10 1978.
I came across the story now while researching through
my files during the Corona Virus lockdown.
It would be interesting know the position of Miss
Gabriella Makhetha today now that she would be around 60-years-old.
The story I wrote in August 1978 read:
A young Tongaat schoolgirl, who early last year was
chosen by a German family to be their “house daughter”, leaves for West Germany
this evening to join them in Bonn.
Miss Gabriela Makhetha (17), a matriculation pupil at
the Mariazella High School in Tongaat, was chosen by Mr and Mrs Nick Saudinger
after she replied to their advertisement in The Daily News seeking a “Zulu
house daughter”.
The Saudinger family were on holiday in Durban in
January last year. Mr Nick Saudinger, a journalist, said at that time that he
had decided to “adopt” a young African girl so that she could benefit from the
chance to live and study overseas.
Her father, Mr Michael Makhetha, said today Gabriella
was to have left for Germany sometime in July last year but had been delayed by
passport and visa problems.
“She now has all her documents and there are no
problems. She will study economics and be in Germany for some time,” he said. Ends
– Daily News Reporter November August 10 1978
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