Mma Shaw � The mother of Palapye

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

When I first met her, in the very early 1970s, she was running a once a week ‘do’ for old people from Palapye, perhaps a hundred or so each time.

The routine seemed to be more or less standardised. Some sort of food, although not as far as I remember a meal, tea, fat cakes, whatever, a hymn and a prayer and a handout of whatever Mma Shaw had managed to garner in the preceding days – soap, cooking oil, and so on.

All fairly small scale but sufficiently demanding to require loyal helpers. It was not, I think, the handouts which so resonated with visitors such as myself.

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