Sipho and Susan

Today I mourn the relocation of my beloved Sipho and Susan.
The boyfriend and I kindof 'adopted' the bergies that stayed on the stoepie of some marketing company(whom i will be blogging about later-with the aim of creating bad publicity, mind you!) located under the flat.
So anyway, we befriended 'our bergies' like we like to call them a couple of years ago and decided to support them- The boyfriend supported financially in terms of buying stuff like toothbrushes and foodies and I supported emotionally in terms of random chats of encouragement:)

So in the past couple of years we have provided panado's for headaches, clothing in the winter months, we have witnessed Susan's eldest daughter's (of many) matric farewell photos, we have met the youngest one (that normally stays at the gran's house), coffee on rainy evenings and the list goes on and on. Its a mutually beneficial relationship really, becuase there's only off street parking and Sipho (when he wasn't high) and Susan made it their responsibility that our cars are safe, which made me feel ok. And one weekend the boyfriend dropped his flatkeys the Friday evening in a rush to a weekend away and only found out he lost it the Sunday evening when Sipho presented it to him upon arrival. How nice is that?! I firmly believe that in Cape Town you absolutely HAVE to befriend your local bergie for reasons mentioned above.
We have witnessed Susan transforming into a business woman of note in starting to sell The Big Issue, religiously buying her first and last copy each month. We have witnessed Sipho not really growing at all (after countless attempts of trying to send him to the local church to earn a worthy income)

We've recently found out that they were kicked out by the marketing company and that they cannot sleep there in the evenings anymore :(
I sincerely miss them and wish them good luck with all future endevours.