This Freedom Day weekend, #SliceofGasant columnist Gasant Abarder rekindled relationships with the dozens of cousins who were his friends from the moment he experienced his first memories. The Cousins Day reunion helped save an otherwise subdued Freedom Day where there was little to celebrate.
On Saturday morning, I woke up with a grave sense of disappointment. The past Saturday wasn’t just any Saturday. It was Freedom Day. And not just any Freeday Day. It was the 30anniversary of the day my parents and older siblings voted for our freedom.
As I headed into the shops, I encountered other South Africans on payday weekend, standing for what felt like hours at shelves making decisions about what to put in their trollies and what they could do without. Every trolley seems to cost R300 more every month while our salaries remain static. And we’re the lucky ones! There are millions who can’t do a monthly grocery shop because they don’t have jobs.
But on Sunday morning, I woke up with the promise of a day I had been counting down on my calendar. An annual cousins day picnic and some much-needed bonding. We haven’t had one for more than a decade because we all have our own families now and life gets in the way.These are the people I have known since my earliest memories – the offspring of my maternal grandparents, matriarch Rabia ‘Mama Rabbie’ Davids and patriarch Malick ‘Darrah’ Davids.
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