JOYS OF LIFE -2 [NOT EDITED]

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Please note that this chapter contains violence against women so if you are a sensitive person, please skip.

Y'all have been warned.

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NARRATED

Lizwi had sent an army of men to Soweto. He had instructed them to kill everyone in that place except any kids if they were any. These were men the taxi marshall had organised for him, izinkabi. These men were all confident in their abilities. They quietly surrounded the house, bumping into other men who were also discreetly surrounding the house.

Gede: "Who are these men now?!" he asked his friend Sboniso frustratedly.

Inkabi 1: "I say we leave and let these men do what they are here to do." he told one of the men.

Inkabi 2: "Wait, isn't that Bafana?!" he pointed at him next to his friends. He quietly walked to him.

Fana: "Bab'Nxumalo."

Bab'Nxumalo: "What are you doing here boy?! Does your father know that you are here?!" he scolded. Every man at the rank was their elder because they all were his father's acquaintances.

Fana: "Cha."

Bab'Nxumalo: "Take your little friends and move from here!" he whisper-shouted before going back into position. Fana and his friends walked down the road to the car wash where they had parked their cars. They decided to stay there and will go back to that house in a few minutes to help the old men.

At the house, Ayanda was busy instructing the men on what to do once they get to Lizwi's house. While she was still talking, she saw her men all collapsing one by one, bleeding from their foreheads. They had been shot, including Luyolo. She quickly laid on the floor, with her heart beating fast in fear. She laid on the floor still baffled by how this happened and who could have done this because as far as they knew, nobody knew about their 'warehouse'.

Just as she pulled her phone from in between her boobs, to call Fathima and notify her of what has happened. Her phone was kicked off her hand.

Bab'Nxumalo: "Wenzani mfazi?"

Ayanda: "I'm sorry."

Bab'Nxumalo: "Awunamahloni. Umdala, uguge nakangaka nokwenza kodwa umatasa uhlukumezana nezingane! Umfazi onjani kanti wena?! Wislima?! Abafazi abangangawe basemakwabo, banakekela imizi yabo kanye nabazukulu kodwa wena umatasa uzenza isigebengu esibolile saseGoli?!" (You are shameless. You are grown and as old as you are, you are busy tormenting kids. What kind of a woman are you?! Are you stupid?! Women your age are in their houses, taking care of their households and their grandkids but you are here acting like a Joburg thug?!)

Bab'Nxumalo: "Madoda, azikhale." Two men walk in and start beating her up until she stops moving. They check her pulse and it's not there. Bab'Nxumalo shoots her twice on the forehead and three times on her stomach to make sure that she's dead and they leave. Once they have drove off, Fana and his friends find their way in with some of their men. They get rid of all the evidence and instruct the men, they came with, about what to do with the bodies. The men come in with big water drums (im'phongolo yamanzi). They put each dead body inside and load the water drums in their truck and drive off. Fana and his friends lit the house and watches it burn down before they get in the car and drive off.

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At Fathima's house.

Fathima: "Why are you crying?!" she shouts at the kid.

Iyana: " 'hungry' " the child responds in sign language. Iyana was her late niece's daughter. Iyana was a slow child, it mostly came from all the abuse she suffered from Fathima. She couldn't speak or do half the things, kids her age did and that included talking.

Fathima: "Shut up! You are making noise!" she scolded shoving the child off of her, making the child fall and hit her head against the coffee table. She leaves her crying like that and goes to answer the door as there was a knock.

Fathima: "Delivery?" she asks herself confused and pushes the big, heavy box inside the house. She opens the box and quickly bends over to the side and throws up. She couldn't bare the smell coming from inside those boxes. She glanced over at the now sleeping Iyana. She pinched her nose opening the box, she screamed seeing the two head inside. She recognised them as Ayanda and Luyolo, she couldn't stop crying and gagging.

Her door flew open and Fana's friends walked in. Fana grabbed the sleeping Iyana on the floor and walked out with her. He gave her to one of their guys to drop her off at Ntokozo's place.

Sboniso: "Hello Fathima!"

Fathima: "Who are you?!" she asked groggily.

Fana: "Just my friends." he said walking back in.

Fathima: "What are you doing here wena?!"

Fana: "To give you what you have always wanted from me."

Fathima: "Wha- What?!"

Fana: "Gents? She is all yours." The guys roughly pull her towards the closest bedroom they could find.

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Later on, Fana's friends force Fathima to take a bath.  Just as they were about to leave, they heard sirens right outside the door.

Sboniso: "Asivaye majita!" he said in panic.

Fana: "Who called the police?!"

Geda: "It must be these white neighbours!"

Fana: "Let's go out through the basement pipe tunnel."

Sboniso: "Let's go!" They quickly run off getting inside the basement.

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