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I was born in Newcastle in KwaZulu-Natal, that’s what my mother used to say, then she would tell her story of a nurse who stole my cowl, a thing which may have something to do with me being the say...visualizza altroI was born in Newcastle in KwaZulu-Natal, that’s what my mother used to say, then she would tell her story of a nurse who stole my cowl, a thing which may have something to do with me being the saying, “isilosengubo” (the beast of the cowl) i.e., if you made someone “isilosengubo” you let him or her down, or you seriously harmed him or her. After my parents’ wedding in 1982 in Bergville, we went to join my father’s family in Waters meet, a village outside Ladysmith. I then joined others for the first year at Waters meet Primary School together with my mother, who also started to teach Standard Three pupils in the same school.
One day, some neighbouring kids (the neighbour just opposite our house), at my arrival in their house, came up with a story of a two-headed serpent that came slithering from the direction of our house. When they rushed past, pelting it with stone, it slithered in to the rondavel one of them said, pointing his finger at the old cracked greying door of the roofless rondavel. I got puzzled a bit, wondering about the said deformed serpent.visualizza meno