Imfihlo: Love & War

By Blessing Riba

"Hi, my name is Thandeka, hope you guys still remember me ... I'm kidding I know you do, remember when I said this story is gonna look like a Cinderella story but its not. This is my story of how I became a Cele before the Mabaso's known as royalty. I am the daughter of the foster parents named Sakhile Zulu and Nandi Zulu, I had a brother called Sipho Zulu. I learned not so long ago from my dear old supposed to be dead brother that I was never a daughter of Zulu, I was actually never a blood of his family.

Its a funny story because it is a journey that I managed to take everyone on during the parade of the Ngcobo's, Nkaba, Sipho Zulu and now it is the Parade of the Cele's. How did it all get to that, well it is a short journey that I will summarise. We all know at the beginning I was a naive and very blind to love girl, I believed in justice and truth based on love and affection, and yes I am still a virgin because I never had time to have sex during my journey of love and war. We all know Zak right, the love of my life known as Zakhele Ngcobo, the last born of the Ngcobo empire.

Our journey of love started when I got the job interview at Johannesburg at WETS university, but I met Zak at a School function event as he was the fund raiser 2019 after I finished my degree of literature at the university of Cape Town. Since then me and him we have been dating till now, I called Zak and told him about the Job interview as I asked for a ride to Johannesburg since he stays there. I had to use my dear step cousin Zizipho for me to escape my foster parents to get to Jozi since they didn't want me to go there due to me finding out the truth of them and my real family, but my mother was encouraging me to go there which made me sceptical about the whole idea of not wanting me to find out or maybe she did want me to find out, its confusing I know. It was a short and very quick journey to Jozi cause I could swear that after we arrived there everything changed from the job interview to the perspective of me being independent to wanting justice for my brother's death. I could smell the truth and feel the fear of the town crumbling due to my arrival. A lot of people were lost and good and innocent man were killed due to my faults, I was to blame for every death that came along the way cause after my arrival a lot happened. I got to meet Bab'Ngcobo the head of the Ngcobo and taxi association empire that they built for themselves, a rich a powerful family feared in Jozi. I got to meet the Xulu brothers which one of them was the soul-mate of my dear cousin known as Steve Xulu, but after that a war broke out. I got to meet Det. Mokoena who died because of me, Clement who was fighting for me and tried to save me from my self and got killed due to me. Bab'Nkaba who brought the war to the doorstep of the Ngcobo's due to avenging his son as he was killed also. Bab'Zulu who was injured and shot by his own son Sipho Zulu who was meant to be dead but alive, a lot of destruction and chaos was built during the war of Bab'Nkaba and the Ngcobo's resulting the elder brother of the Xulu's known as Sbonelo ending up in hospital. I was kidnapped by my own brother who then explained the truth to me resulting to me being a Cele than a Zulu, and why I am the reason of the death curse brought to the innocents. Zakhele and Steve came to my rescue but instead Steve got shot at close range to his upper left of his heart, alongside as Sipho was killed by Zak who was helped by Zizipho. A lot of blood was shed due to my rescue and safety, now Steve as we speak is fighting for his life in ICU, but who's to say the war is over ... might be the beginning of a new one. And it is up to me if whether I choose to stay and bring that war to the people I care about and let them die just to save me, or I choose to go and face the war myself to save the ones I care about instead ... this time I don't want anyone close to me to die or end up in hospital du

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CL5PLWZN
• ISBN13: 9798864489789
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"