She is a naturalised American (Nashville, Tennessee), having emigrated in 1977 after the riots here. She has returned to RSA to celebrate a’significant’ birthday, and will be visiting our home (after several functions over two weeks) for dinner with her husband. I have decided to appoint a young aspirant chef to cater the dinner.

She will prepare a South African menu, based on the rich flavours of the Cape Malay influence. All I have to do will is tidy up a bit, set the table(and disperse a few cobwebs around) – but that is another story.

I will have to decide what to do with a couple of nude paintings -as they are very strict southern baptists. No, on second thought, I will leave the nude paintings exactly where they are.

My husband’s Muslim friends did not flinch, so why should they?