'I am looking for someone to bless. I will provide an allowance of R 10 000 per month and the lady needs to be Zulu, well spoken, slim and below 24 years. Preferably yellowbone. She must have a passport and ready to travel at moment's notice' Ntombizodwa read the face book post and pressed 'Like'. She was already running late for work anyway. The lift club vehicle would be at her gate in 15 minutes and she still had not combed her hair. She only had her uniform on. Her nurse uniform.
That day at work Ntombizodwa did her usual duties. This was her third month at Addington Hospital having been transferred from the Free State. She missed her family back in Bloem but there was nothing much she could do about it. She called frequently to talk to her son and mother. Besides, she had found love in Durban and her boyfriend, Mlungisi was charming and worked same ward as her. Mlu, as they called him, was the ward joker and people adored him. Ntombizodwa adored him.
Elsewhere, a man driving the latest Range Rover checks his phone and noticed a couple of notifications on his profile. He opens them and notices one which catches his eye. About 12 people had liked his blesser advert. Only 3 had commented but one of them was a man. The man lit his Cuban cigar and starts looking at the notifications one by one. One catches his eye. He opens the profile.
Slim : Check
Zulu : Looks like it judging by the name
Yellowbone : Check
Age : She looks youngish
Name : Ntombizodwa Mabuse
Current City : Durban
The man is deeply interested in what he is seeing, he quickly makes a call to a number saved in his phone as Malume. ' We have found her' he says and cuts the phone.
Malume sits in a dimly lit thatched room. In one corner lay a dead rotting cat with flies buzzing sround it. The stench from the cat is nauseating. Malume does not seem to mind. His mind is fixed on the phone call he had just received. The time has come to put their plan in motion.
Ntombi and Mlu went out for dinner in Durban's busy Florida road that evening. They both had the day off and planned to spend it locked up in Mlu's flat in the CBD. Halfway through dinner, Mlu receives a phone call and excuses himself to answer it. At this moment, Ntombizodwa decides to switch on her pone. It actually had been off the whole day. Notifications and missed call alerts start streaming in. She starts reading them and most are from her mother in Bloem. She then checks her Face book and notices an inbox message from one 'Induna Sibali'. The message read ,'Hi, I saw you liked my advertisement in the Blessers facebook page. I would like to be your blesser is you can allow me. Please give me your direct contact detail' While still trying to make sense and recollect which blesser message she liked, Mlu comes back and the two continue their dinner.
She never replied the message .....
