I'm meeting up with Omphile and Metse before going to eShowe with Kwanele and his family. I thought it would be the decent thing to do. To make a mends before I start something new.
I suggested we meet at a restaurant, going home as of now doesn't feel right.
KGOPOTSO :How's dad doing?
OMPHILE : He's okay,his blood pressure started again.
KGOPOTSO :. Eish okay... Uhm I'm going to Kwanele's home tomorrow, before the actual wedding.
OMPHILE :Wow, that's good news.
I nod
KGOPOTSO :I'm not holding anything against you guys. Not like you could do anything about it.
OMPHILE :.I'm sorry though, we should've told you earlier.
KGOPOTSO :It's fine.... Like I said, I'm not holding anything against you.
So is Ontlametse not going to say anything right now?
KGOPOTSO :I have to go, my bags aren't going to pack themselves.
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CHANTELLE :Are you excited?
Dingane suggested we all traveled together so they got a mini bus to take us.
KGOPOTSO :I'm nervous.
KHANYI : Agh man, there's nothing to be nervous about.
KGOPOTSO :If you say so.
Kwanele comes to sit next to me.
KWANELE : What's this I hear about being nervous?
I roll my eyes.
KGOPOTSO :I'm not nervous nervous I'm just a little nervous.
KWANELE :So I'm hearing things now?
He's so boring!!
KGOPOTSO : I guess so.
He chuckles a little.
KWANELE : But really Kgopotso, there is nothing to be nervous about. Ngikhona. (I'm here)
KGOPOTSO :Okay.
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We finally arrive at his home and it's just dust! It's a huge open field with a kraal not too far away and a small isolated house.
KGOPOTSO :So this is where you grew up?
KWANELE :Yep. Let's go inside, people are waiting for us.
People?
We enter the house and in the living is a sangoma.
I look up at Kwanele and I see him taking off his shoes.
KWANELE :Take off your shoes.
Ache what's going on? Now I have to take off my shoes for a sangoma?
Khanyi hands me a headwrap and I cover my head.
They all leave and it's just Kwanele and I.
SANGOMA: Dlamini.
KWANELE :Makhosi.
MAKHOSI: Ngubani lo? (Who is this)
KWANELE :Indodakazi kaMotloung.
The sangoma makes weird noises and moves some dried up bones on a grass mat.
MAKHOSI: Ingane Dlamini, iphatheke kabi ingane Dlamini. Izinto ngeke zikuhambele kahle uze uhlabe imvu ngalengane. ( The child is upset. Things won't go well for you until slaughter a sheep for the child)
KWANELE :Yebo Makhosi.
MAKHOSI :Yamukela okwenzekile, phila ngenhliziyo evulekile negazi lizoyeka ukuchitheka. (Accept what has happened, live with an open heart and blood will stop spilling.)
MAKHOSI: Vuma Dlamini!
KWANELE :Ngiyavuma!
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The Perfect Facade.
RomanceKgopotso's life is turned upside down when she's forced to marry Kwanele, the perfect son of a powerful family, to settle an old family debt. But as she gets to know him, she realizes his flawless exterior hides secrets - and finds herself falling d...
