Silindile considers herself “luck”. She works as a ‘contractor’ for Polyman polishing up lamps with sandpaper. She works 7 – till 4:30 5 days a week and gets 50c a lamp. She averages around R200 a week. She lives in a shack with her mother, Louisa Motha, who never got a house when she lost her old house when people were forcibly removed out of Old eMaus.