Not even the darkness that filled the whole village could stop me from running for my life the picture of my mother shielding my father and crying and begging them to stop what they were doing was stuck in my head ,they were gone ,i looked back and realised that i was far from home and was approaching the other side of the village known as "Letlotlo mafikeng"village see our village was divided into two sections one being for "AMAHLUBi"the other one for"Basotho" (MA'RUSSiA)those were the cruelest people i knew according to my father's story our chief and their chief had come to an agreement that none of his people would cross the mountain dividing the villages if one would cross he /she may never return alive ,not fair right?but what would we say about a cruel man who believed that being greedy was a nice thing ,word says he had wanted to rule both "AMAHLUBi" & "ABESOTHo"but because leaders in our village had seen how he handled his people, teaching them that violence was the only way out they refused hence why this agreement of knowing our place was took ,i stood in the middle of the gravel road wandering, thinking about my next move "ngewundimamele ,qha uyathanda ukwenza into ethandwa yintliziyo yakho "somebody plz kill me right now instead of coming with solutions and helping me find a shelter for my self its busy tormenting me "nawe if ubundikhathelela ngewuzama indlela zokuba sifumane indlu ,uthetha kakhulu kodwa xakumele undingcede uyakhamisa "i said out loudly forgetting i was just standing in the middle of the road in the darkness "who are you?"the question was followed by a torch probably to look if i was a real person or "umkhovu" bab"Qwathi?what was he doing here ,well what was i doing here that's none of my business iam also wandering in the middle of the night and lost too ,oh"baba they got inside the house and they were whipping and pouring paraffin ku MAMA no TAT"i sobbed "oh u DLAMINi indoda enkulu sizawba sathini kengoku ?"the old man asked probably also shuttered,him and dad always sat in the veranda gossiping about other men who were "bewitched by their women "for acting some sort of way ,this other day Bab'Maseko was told to vomit all that love portion when he told baba and Bab'qwathi about waking her woman with breakfast in bed,how typical?these men where so traditional and it was so annoying sometimes "tata undibona nje andina ndawo yobalekela andazi ndizawthini"i wailed "masambe siye kwam after amalanga amabini uzawphinde ubuyele kokwenu ,iam saying this so that we can avoid those killers coming to your house again to see if they did their job properly,lets go "slowly we walked back in the village,"i wonder what is this wife going to complain about today ,yena nje oko ufuna uqabelwa , there is nothing else she thinks about besides us having s3x"i giggled surely my problems were better than his if he had a wife demanding s3x at their age i mean the man was 71 for goodness sake ,if he was thinking out loud about it ,it meant that he was really stressed about it , sighs "i wonder imini yangomso indiphatheleni"
"The name is khethiwe Mmisele,iam 20 years old iam the only child of Nobuntu Mmisele and Dlabaza Mmisele ,my mother was found in the veld deep in the bushes by a hunter my Grandfather Mzixolo dengani he gave her love and raised her until she reached womanhood and met my father ,my mother used to tell me about their love story ,it was one of the typical novel stories " we fell in love my husband's family hated me they did not want me to be their daughter in law me and your father fled away after i had found out i was pregnant,you were our lucky charm ,our pride and ..yeah yeah yeah "i had never seen my father's siblings, cousins, aunts,uncles or even his parents ,but they knew where he stayed they knew his house and they lived across the "letlotlo mafikeng village"how typical,but nonetheless i never felt like i needed to know them because my father had everything dont get me wrong we were not rich but my father was the second man that had cows and sheeps after the king and he was one of the council men so we were living and happy,unti today (heavy sigh)
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