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Her mother, Nontobeko Mkhize worked as a domestic for the Smith family and fed her only child with the small change she was getting. All hell would break loose when Mbalenhle would ask about her father or her father’s family. He and his family were never to be mentioned under Nontobeko’s roof. They were still a touchy subject. She was always amazed at her mother’s fury and at the mention of her father’s name. She didn’t know why her mother hated her father so much, but she had every reason to hate him
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You see the thing is, I couldn't allow my self to die poor, no!. So I had to take the deal, the deal that will change my life for better and that of my parents. I wanted this luxury cars that I have now, I wanted this big mansion and the hottest wife I have on my bed everyday, but little do people know that she turns into a snake at night, literally, and she drains my blood. I just live with it, I am now used to this arrangements, besides, there is nothing for mahala. I call her BabesWemali, sometimes I call her BlesserWifi, but she well prefers BabesWemali, she turns into all kinds of sexy women when I call her BabesWemali, she turns to Kim Kardershian, Mini Dlamini or Beyonce when I call her with that name. I am a saint in my community, I fund the daily operation of the Love Fountain Orphanage Center, every month I give school shoes to the needy children at Reyaahana primary school and do all other good things, like giving the guys at the street corner R100 for beer. Money has made me the Good King in my community. People don't know the bad stuff I do, I kill those who know. Just yesterday, I killed my next door neighbor, I sent her to an all payed trip to carnival city and I instructed my guys to mug and kill her just after she gots of the taxi.
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Nompumelelo
Nompumelelo is a 16 year old rural girl from Nkandla Kwazulu Natal, a rural area in South Africa's biggets Province. She lives with her ill father and she does not go to school so that she can take care of her Father who is lying on the floor, cancer is slowly taking away his life. Well it is no problem the fact that she does not go to school, many rural South African Girls are not allowed to go to school. They must stay behind with their mothers and help take care of the house. Poor Nompumelo does not know how to read, write, speak and does not understand english, she only knows her home language IsiZulu. She is a chichi (A virgin) and not allowed to sleep with boys. In case you wonder, her mother died of cancer when she was still young.'The other girls always laugh at me and tease me when I come from the river' She told her Father. Her father assured he that all of that will end. She will be a happy girl soon. What her father is not telling her is what is it that will end her problem soon.
One day while Nompumelelo was out to Fetch water, an old boer (Afrikaana) came to visit her father. His name was Steinkan Botha, he knows Nompumelelos father from the Apartheid days when he was still part of The IFP that worked covertly with the apartheid government to stop black people from Revolting. Botha was about 60 years old and coughed a lot as he went in Nompumelelos fathers' hut without even knocking. 'Nduna, Nduna, Nduna are you here!!!' he called. Nduna means chief in IsiZulu, the one who does not learson to the opinions of his subjects. 'Ahh!! the great Nduna, I am down here' responded Nompumelelos father. After Botha noticed him, he did not hesitate but cut strait to the point. 'Nduna, You know that I care for you right?. And I wouldn't like you to die from a curable illness like cancer, so I brought you a cure. In exchange you also give me a cure for HIV-AIDS!!. You see how much I love you Nduna?'
Botha told Nompumelelo's father.
'Yes Nduna I see, but I don't have a cure for HIV-Aids?'
'Nduna, Nduna you have! Don't You know that Virgins cure HIV-Aids?, yes they do Nduna, you just have sex with her and it's all gone. She does not get infected. It's that simple, and I know your daughter is a virgin.'
Not surprisingly, Nompumelelos father agreed to give his daughter to Botha for an exchange of a cancer cure. Many black people believe in every thing that a white person says. The exchange was done, Nompumelelos father was given a Rhino horn and was promised that it will cure him. He (Nompumelelos father) told Botha to confront his daughter on her way from the river. Botha did so and told her that her father said he must take her to Johannesburg and give her a Good life. Nompumelelo Trusted her father and she agreed to go with Botha. Besides, a child must not question orders and decision of the parent. It is the law.
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She was beautiful and intelligent: a combination of both. They called her an aqua fresh because she was all in one. Her plastic tag declared her to be Mbalenhle Mkhize, a beautiful flower indeed. Teachers were very fond of her because she was an intellectual; her reasoning capacity was way above her age. She was the lead debater for her school debating team. She very much enjoyed debating, said that it was a way of expressing herself.
Her mother, Nontobeko Mkhize worked as a domestic for the Smith family and fed her only child with the small change she was getting. All hell would break loose when Mbalenhle would ask about her father or her father’s family. He and his family were never to be mentioned under Nontobeko’s roof. They were still a touchy subject. She was always amazed at her mother’s fury and at the mention of her father’s name. She didn’t know why her mother hated her father so much, but she had every reason to hate him
Nontobeko Mkhize met Thulasizwe Simelane when she was eighteen years old. Thulasizwe was a lecture at the collage where Nontobeko was schooling. Nontobeko was not an intellect like her child nor was she intelligent; she was just an average girl from the rural areas trying to make it in the big bad evil city. She always stayed behind so that she can go through all the work that they had covered for that particular day. As she continued with her daily routine, Thulasizwe noticed this. He first thought that Nontobeko was struggling to keep up with her work but her results stated otherwise. She was just a hard worker who loved to be ahead with her studies hence she stayed behind.
One boring evening, Thulasizwe was marking scripts when he noticed Nontobeko sitting in a class all alone and buried deep in her studies. He went to her and greeted as if their relationship was more than that of a student and a lecture. Nontobeko responded to the greeting without any suspicion. The teachers mind had escalated to bigger and better things in the mind of the man. His attention was not on the conversation that they were having but on this humble and beautiful lady in front of him. He was now in love.
Without wasting any more time, he told Nontobeko about his long lasting love for her, told her that he loved her from the very first day he laid his eyes on her and that he wouldn’t mind if they were to be a couple. Nontobeko agreed to be Thulasizwe’s partner in crime and this was the start of many bad things to come. Their relationship was kept under wraps and no one knew about it. Their relationship was very formal in class and very informal outside class. In that short period of time, Nontobeko forgot why she went to college. Thulasizwe was always on her mind. As the winds of time changed, so did Thulasizwe. He badly wanted to engage in copulation but Nontobeko wasn’t ready. He promised to leave her and that’s when she gave in
It hurts to engage in something where you are not an active participant. Nontobeko realized that at the later stage. She gave Thulasizwe what he wanted and weeks later she got dumped. This traumatized her. She gave herself leave of absence for three weeks and found out during that time that she was pregnant. She then went back to her lover and told him that she was pregnant. Thulasizwe ordered her to abort the child and she saw this as a sin and defied him .
From that point on wards Thulasizwe tried everything in his power to get Nontobeko expelled because in her she saw someone who will destroy his reputation. At the end he finally got things in his way and Nontobeko was no more. Nontobeko still gets goosebumps and unbearable headache when he thinks of all the pain that Thulasizwe put her through. No wonder she doesn’t want to hear her name ever again.
It was crystal clear that Mbalenhle got her attributes from her father although she didn’t know. It was on the 12th of September when Mbalenhle received a phone call alerting her that her mother was no more. This happened when her English teacher asked her to answer a question and she completely embarrassed herself and the class rolled down with laughter. As they were laughing Mbalenhle received a phone call which left her cheeks wet with tears. She quickly slipped out without being noticed carrying a bag on her back. She roamed around the streets without knowing where she will go because her mother was the only family she had, an evil thought came to her mind and she threw herself in front of a moving train and decided to join her mother in heaven.
