PART II
On that hot day in the Beetham, three people–Simone de la Bastide, Wayne Jordan, and I–gazed at tall grass that had shot above a six-foot-high, 12-by-ten-foot uncovered galvanised enclosure from a different perspective.Simone de la Bastide is known and loved by the people in this area not as the wife of the legal luminary Michael de la Bastide (who, incidentally, is one of their heroes–his name is carved into a plaque at the entrance to this area, along with those of Prince Charles and British High Commissioner Arthur Snell).
Some in the Beetham remember that it was Simone–then chairman of her brainchild charity, Women in Action for the Needy and Destitute (Wand), who, 14 years back, helped Wayne Jordan to build a proper school just yards away from this spot.
Jordan's childhood was spent in the St Michael's Home for Boys. His mother left him there when she left the country, and his father was not around. Occasionally, perhaps at Christmas or Easter, families who wanted to do more than just give hampers to these boys took him to their homes.
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