THE SILK SCARF by: Ahmed Essop

SETTING:

place: The event took place in Oriental Plaza, Johanusburg, at a shopping center owned by Indians.
Time: Last days of apartheid.

PLOT:
            

Mrs Nebo was a high medium height woman of class, she and her friend Marget went on a shopping expedition in the local plaza area owned by Indians, being escorted by two build up me with. They bought several items like shoes, jewels etc, after that she saw a beautiful Indian dress in the window and decided to buy it and for the dress she needed a silk scarf but just not any silk scarf, she refused many until she came a Boutique shop owned by an Indian man Mr Sakur. Mrs knew it was the scarf that she had been looking for and decided to buy it but she did not have any cash on her so she decided to pay with a cheque. Mr Sakur refused as he was running his business according to his laws rules which one of them was “No cheque, No credit”. Mrs Nebo felt offended as she was used to paying with cheques and none of them ever bounced .Marget , Mrs Nebo’s  friend tried to convince the shop keeper by telling him about what status Mrs Nebo and her husband has in the country and how important it is that she gets the silk scarf on cheque, Mr Sakur still refused not caring about who she is, Mrs Nebo felt humiliated and decided not to leave the shop without purchasing the silk scarf she came for . Several shopkeepers who heard the dispute went over to the shop trying to convince Mr Sakur to just stake the cheque, even to a point where they had to remind of how their shops were smashed before and he still refused until the local shopkeepers decided to buy the scarf and give it to Mrs Nebo as a gift from the traders, she smiled and thanked them.

MAIN CHARACTER:

-Mrs Nebo is a medium height, wife soon to be foreign  minister.

-She was very rich and lived in a white suburb of Houghton.

- she was a stubborn woman who cared more about her integrity.

Mr Sakur was an Indian man who owned a boutique in the plaza, he was very persistent about sticking to his laws.