Fighting Alone
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Last published Sun, May 17, 2020
A south African Tale of a mother's love,struggles, shortcomings and its effect due to circumstance.
A tale that moves from Noluthando to Boitumelo.
Having Boitumelo without a solemn vow with Bongi, draws Thando almost to a deadly end.
Thando tries her possible best to take good care of herself and her unborn child, but circumstance becomes more critical when Thando is kicked out of the house by her aunt,and then by her very own mother just immediately after her delivery.
Bongi is nowhere to be found, Thando is made to believe he's about getting married and has moved on with someone else.
Thando devastated,Frustrated, and Broken, with no money or Food in the streets of Johannesburg and absolute nowhere to go or anyone to help her,is left with no other option but to leave her little baby Boitumelo, of barely 11months at the door step of a very distant relative of Bongi with a tag!
Her life as a being,continues from there.
What happens to Boitumelo afterwards?
How does life turn out for her?.
"Fighting Alone".
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"Nafi son Hamma Zayyad aunty Yusrah amman idan na zaɓe shi a kan Hamma sulaiman kaman nayi butulci ne, zuciya ta ta cunkushe na rasa wanda zan zaba a cikin su ki bani shawara yaya zanyi?"... Her destiny is complicated, she is so young to face all those troubles alone,,,, At first she was oust from her own village then happens to fell in traps of two brothers who loves her dearly,,,, Who will she choose among them? The eldest who takes all her responsibilities? Or the younger one who is always there for her?,,, Will their family accept her as a YOUNG WIDOW??
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