Sunday, March 21, 2021

ZULU HIGH SCHOOL GIRL LEAVES TO JOIN GERMAN "FAMILY" IN AUGUST 1978

 





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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