"Why are we here, mommy?" Siya asks me. Sandile and I look at each other. "We just going to be staying here for a little while, my boy", Sandile answers him. My mom has been judging Sandile and I since we left Diepkloof. She is not happy. She has a lot of questions - many of which question my sudden closeness with Sandile. If there are two people who can fight on this planet, it is Sandile and I....
"Why are we here, mommy?" Siya asks me. Sandile and I look at each other. "We just going to be staying here for a little while, my boy", Sandile answers him. My mom has been judging Sandile and I since we left Diepkloof. She is not happy. She has a lot of questions - many of which question my sudden closeness with Sandile. If there are two people who can fight on this planet, it is Sandile and I....
Lydia 6am meetings. I have always hated them and I have always believed that I am too junior to be sitting in them. People who get paid the real money are the people who are paid to sit in such meetings. I'm just a specialist. I have no business being here. The meeting is virtual and the big guns are preparing for a meeting with my man. It amazes me how scared they are of him. Thomas is such a...
Pearl Today, Qaphela and I are having lunch with Gcina and we are just intervening in this behaviour of hers that I just don't like. We are at Circus Circus. I can just tell that Qaphela and Gcina are here for the first time. I help them pick their meals and we place our order. As soon as the waiter disappears, I start. "Gcina, your father and I are worried about you." "Why?" "Because we don't believe that you've...
Disclaimer: Tonight’s episode is not for sensitive readers. "Sindi!" George is yelling for me. I am lying in the same spot he left me in last night when he beat me up and left me lying in a pool of my own blood. I do not even have the energy to respond to his call. My entire body is in so much pain. I can barely move. There are places aching in my body that I never even knew existed. "Sindi!" He keeps yelling. I...
I hate my job. Truly, I do. I should have never resigned from Thomas' company. People valued me more when I was there. Now, I am an executive, but I get treated like trash. I hate it. I hate everyone here. I never take lunch because I don't want anyone thinking we are friends or that we should lunch together. None of these people are worth me having lunch with. But today, I need some air. I need to breathe in...
"Mah", Mfundo calls out to me as he eats his breakfast and I finish up tidying up the kitchen. "Yebo Mfundo", I answer, but don't quite look at him. "You haven't been okay since ubaba came back from Mbali's grave with uMah-ka-Mbali. Did something happen?" He asks me. I sigh because honestly, I don't know what to tell him. His dad hasn't been okay since he came back from Mbali's grave. I have been feeling him drift away from me. It's been a week and...
"BANG!" I jump immediately and my first instinct is to check if Thomas is still next to me. He is not. I was really hoping that I heard that bang in my dreams. Where is my boyfriend and why is someone shooting a gun my house? I hear my daughter crying. Oh shit! I jump out of bed and run into her nursery. She is alone and is crying. I quickly grab her and hold her close to my chest. As I try to calm...
With people coming back to work now and accommodation opening, work is becoming good again. I am very busy. I need help. My tender work is piling up and I'm five minutes away from losing this tender. My beauty bars are in serious debt. That man-stealing witch quit on me and you know what, I'm done begging her ass. I am in the process of hiring a PA who can do what that witch was doing. I am thinking...
A returned soldier, that's who I am and what I have become. I have been at home for a week now. It is just my mother, my daughter and I. I had my daughter before I met Thomas. She stayed with my mother because when I married Thomas, he did not want to take on my daughter as an added responsibility. Her name is Gcinumama, but we call her Gcina for short. Gcina's father is as useless as Thomas. The difference...
