Madonna is set to visit Malawi, South Africa, and there’s growing speculation that she intends to return with a new sister for her adopted Malawian child David Banda.

This week, an official at the Ministry of Gender and Child Development told Reuters that Madonna was due to visit sometime before the end of March. Madonna has publicly stated that David needs a brother or sister and that she would consider adopting another child from the AIDS ravaged region, but only if the Malawian people supported the move.

Madonna doesn’t want a repeat of the controversy that surrounded her last adoption. She was criticised for using her celebrity status to bend local laws that prevent non-residents from adopting children in Malawi. Child rights activist John Soo Phiri told Reuters that Madonna is likely to attract even more negative attention this time around because she is now a single parent.

“She will have to prove that as a single parent she still has the abilities to raise another child alone,” he said.

While in Malawi Madonna has plans to visit the building site where her Raising Malawi charity is erecting a school for girls. Officials from the charity have told David’s biological father that he should get to see his child during his visit.

UK tabloid Daily Mail alleges that Madonna has her eye on a four year old girl named Mercy James. According to them, Mercy has been taken from her orphanage and is already being looked after by Madonna’s “people” at a hotel called Kumbali Lodge.

The Daily Mail also say that Mercy’s uncle, John Ngalande, last year spoke out against the adoption. “We won’t surrender her. They told us how another Malawi kid has had his life transformed by her. I don’t want that attention. We want an ordinary life.”

Mercy went into an orphanage after her mother, who was just 18, died five days after giving birth to her. It’s unclear whether Mercy’s father is still alive.