Kaboentle.
"Been around the world and I-i-i, I can't find my baby
, I don't know when and i don't know why,
why he's gone away and
I don't know where he can be, my baby,
but I am gonna find him..."
I sing along to the music as I drive into the complex with the windows down and the air blowing into my hair and some shades on.
I forgot how good it felt just driving around the waterfall area without a care in the world and the people here make it so easy to drive with except for taxi drivers it's always the taxi drivers that make this experience hell.
The smell of petrol hits my nostrils when I drive by a garage and I drive into the office park.
As soon as I get to the parking lot it's full, really really fucking full and my appointment at the bank is coming up in the next five minutes and that banker from what I've heard does not have time to waste and I am in desperate need of moving money so this appointment needs to happen.
I spot a disabled persons parking open and I drive to it and I park the car there and I make my way out, It will only be for thirty minutes it won't hurt anybody.
So I take my hand bag and I bolt out of the car and I quickly walk into the bank and as soon as I get there I let the people at the reception know who I am here to see and they lead me to their office right after offering me a refreshment of my choice and I ask for a cup of rooibos instead.
She sits down as soon as she's closed the door behind me, pulls her chair towards her table and she holds her hands over the table and she looks at me.
"How may I help you today Mrs Gumede ?"
She asks and I clear my throat before I start speaking, not sure how I am going to put this.
I never thought that I'd be in a position where I'd have to stash away secret money, I always thought that I was secure in my marriage but here I am.
"I want to open a numbered bank account."
I tell her and I see her furrow her brows at me and I stare back at her.
I know what I just said and I know what I am doing. Nobody can trace this account not even Saneles ever increasing skills in tech. This account is basically just numbers numbers that are discreet to everybody except for me and this woman Infront me, numbers that won't tie back to me or her. Their basically reducing my identity to a number.
And it's not like i am asking her to do something out of the ordinary for me and she's best private banker in Rustenburg I trust her to do an exceptional job at this.
"A numbered bank account ?"
She asks and I nod my head.
"And what would be our opening balance ?"
She asks as she opens a binder that she pulls from her drawer next to her and she takes out a pen.
"Five million."
I tell her straight faced and all.
That's all the money I've managed to save in all my years of my marriage, well a lot more but that's the amount that I need to put away without
Siya noticing and I saved this money in the form of three Birkin bags, one that's valued at a little over two point five million and two that are valued at a million each and a little bit of money I've been putting away so that's my Five million.
I sold the bags at an auction and I came out with a little more hence the house in Knysna.
This is not an exit plan, just an insurance policy, something I hope I won't need one day.
She nods her head and she writes something down and she tears the slip and she hands it to me.
"Before we open this account you need to undergo multi stages of clearance and vetting to all the necessary banking laws and we need to verify the origin of your assets."
She says. And I take out USB stick and i slide it to her.
