Chapter 1

CRIMETELLA

Chapter 1

'Lord I come before you this morning praying for guidance and strength as im about to lay my mother to rest. Fill my heart with forgiveness and love. I hate feeling this way, take away the pain its too much and..'

"Zine come, umfundisi ne bokisi seyifikile" That's my fathers 3rd wife MaDlamini yep ndizalwa esthembini my mom is the first wife, gosh i forgot was the first wife then maXulu.

Me:Yes maD im coming, u Pheko sefikile?

MaDlamini: No mybaby not yet, fix up your makeup kaloku people mustn't see your problems written on your face.

She walked out the room. Pheko is her son we are so close its like his my twin brother he taught me everything i know and his so proud that his teachings didnt go to waste. I fixed up my makup and my nice fitted red dress.

" and she loved red" i turned and Pheko was standing on the door looking at me like im some meat ready to be devoured

Me: Ta P

Pheko: ya ntombi ka Baba awusemhle wavela wafana naye umfazi ka Baba

Me: Ya, ya lets go

We walk out hand in hand he squeezed my hand, my eyes got heavy and i knew if i blinked tears will be falling. I looked at my father standing over my mother his nose was so red you could tell that he was crying. Darm that man loved his wife he would say lithambo lam eli and akekho onjengaye. They were high school sweet hearts so you could imagine. Wahlabe lela ke u tata ow ucula kamandi ke bonke bayakwazi ucula yhoo ndiliyilo ke mna.

?Wazithwal' izoono Yesu Zingezoono zakho

Walithwali' ityala Yesu

Lingetyala lakho

Wawu ngumntu onensizi

Ungemoni wena

Laphalal' igazi lakho

Uyingcwele wena?

MaXulu and MaDlamini walk towards dad he looked at them.

MaXulu:Hayi Nkumkani abantu bajongile. (Dad turned and looked at us and i just nod i dont know why but at that time it was like im telling him kuzoba right.)

4 days after the funeral we were sitting at the round table looking at u Tata

Dlangamandla: eh Bo Tolo, mandinibulise bethuna. Im here to announce that im taking another wife. (silence, another thing about my father he is your kind that when he speaks you keep quiet unless your given a chance to say your piece. But at this moment maXulu and maDlamini are head bounded but im sure maX is cooking up some fireworks, ow dear father i dont want to be you right now)

Dlangamandla : When i married uNkosikazi ka Baba I vowed that kweli lo Zulu amakhosikazi ayoba mathathu and now iNdlovukazi ilele ithi lonto funeke ndithathe omnye uNkosikazi. MaDlamini

MaDlamini :Mnyeni wam

Dlangamandla :Thetha kaloku ntombi yo Zizi, ucinga ntoni?

MaDlamini : No my husband theres nothing im thinking about accept of going to emaThongo ndiyocela ibhekile uvele uphambane ke qha

Everyone was in stitches laughing at what maD was saying, even dad was laughing he even had tears coming out of his eyes.

MaDlamini:Xolo mnyeni wam

Dlangamandla : Yhooo hayini makwedini niyababona abafazi!! Pewu MaXulu mnkam hayi sisi nindibambe nga..

MaXulu: Hayi Nkumkani. (she looked at her husband and daddy just laughed at her)

Dlangamandla : anyway the point of this meeting is to tell you that im taking my wives for a month out to enjoy imali kamasincwabane we will come back and when I come back I better find all you Zintombi letters asking for your hand in marriage.

What a bomb! Did this man just dropped such a heavy rain as if we have to walk out the door and find husband hayi no uphazamisekile u tata and he just stands up and his wives followed and the brothers went out I was left with my sisters looking at each other lost, angry and pissed off...

Azinani:His not counting me too right?

Hi my name is Zine(Four) Dlangamandla. I have now 2 mothers that is MaXulu and

MaDlamini and my father Dlangamandla. I have 7 siblings Zimbini (21 from MaXulu) Zintombi(21from MaDlamini ) Phekonke(27 from maDlamini) Phenyokuhle(26from maXulu) Phakamile(23from maXulu) and Azinani(18 from MaXulu) and Me Zinenani ( 20 from my MamSiya)

Azi is doing her grade 12, Zim and Ntombi are working at the farm they both didnt want to continue with their studies so they only did marketing for 18 months after that joined the family businesses and upgraded the farm into one of the biggest farms South Africa. The ZamaTolo we even have our own Amasi at checkers, spar and Shoprite we also supply big companies. And theres me doing my final year studying education. The Dlangamandla brothers they are into logistics ow i know nothing about that side what i know is that they import and export goods and services into other countries.

This is my family lets take a ride ndinixelele about the drama about to unfold

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