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Izinkabi: Yasho Inganono, Laphalala Igazi by Nathi Olifant

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UMazwi Nxumalo yibhungu elidabuka ezindaweni zasemakhaya kwaNongoma elakhetha ukuyeka isikole lazithola seliphila ebumnyameni bomhlaba wezinkabi zasehostela laseGlebelands. Ukuphuma emndenini wakubo okhungethwe ubumpofu kwenze izinkinga zanqwabelana kuMazwi. Ubalekela nendoda engaqondakali kanye nezicathalala zayo azibhadama zibulala umlisa thizeni ehlathini kwaNongoma. Emuva kokujwayela izindlela zaserenki yamatekisi eThekwini nakho konke okuhambisana nemboni yamatekisi, uMazwi uzithola eseqeqeshelwa ukudubula eqeqeshwa ngamaphoyisa ayizikhohlakali angabangani bomphathi wakhe, uZenzele. Kuthi lapho evakashele ekhaya kwaNongoma, akhungwe ukucasuka, abulale umngani wakhe ababefunda naye esikoleni futhi bedlala naye eqenjini lebhola lendawo ngemuva kokuzwa ukuthi ukhulelise isinqandamathe sakhe, uS’ma. Ethukutheliswe yisenzo sikaMazwi sokubulala, ebona nokuthi uzophuma esandleni, uZenzele unquma ukuthi sekuyisikhathi sokuthi amuyise enyangeni ukuze aqine, aphinde athwale. Emva kokuphothula ukuthwala, uMazwi uphenduka umshini wokubulala ongathandabuzi. Njengoba izidumbu zinqwabelana, okubalwa kuzo namaphoyisa aphenya ubugebengu bakhe, kuyanyukela nokuthatheka kwakhe ngezinhlamvu ezilashwe ngomuthi kanye nothando lowesifazane abaphathi bakhe abakholelwa ukuthi uzomcekela phansi. Ukushona kukayise kudalula indaba eshaqisayo mayelana nokuqashwa kwale nsizwa ukuba ibe yinkabi, futhi izothatha wonke umuntu esondelene naye ihambe naye kulolu hambo oluyingozi.

Mazwi Nxumalo is a naïve school dropout teenager from rural Nongoma who is unwittingly recruited into the dark world of Glebelands hostel hitmen. Coming from a poverty-stricken family, the odds are stacked against him. He is also running away from a mysterious man and his goons that he busted executing a man in a local forest. After getting in tune with the ways of the Durban taxi ranks and industry, he is soon trained in shooting, surprisingly by rogue cop friends of his handler, Zenzele. He returns one more time to Nongoma where, in a rage, kills his friend, former schoolmate and striking partner in the local football team after learning he had impregnated his high school sweetheart. Angry at his protégé and fearing that he would soon be out of control, Zenzele decides it’s time for the traditional cleansing and strengthening ceremony, ukuthwala.

Mazwi emerges almost invincible from this rite of passage to become an unstoppable but flawed killing machine. As the bodies pile up, including of those cops investigating his crimes, so is his irrepressible obsession with his doctored bullets and one woman whom his handlers believe will be his Achilles heel. The death of his father reveals more shocks around the young man’s recruitment into contract killing and he would take everyone with him on his menacing rollercoaster ride.

ISBN: 978-0-7961-6081-2
Epub ISBN: 978-0-7961-6124-6
Date Released: July 2024
Pages: 374
Format: Paperback
Dimensions: 15.5cm x 23.5cm

Authors & Translators

Durban-based Nathi Olifant is a former crime and features journalist for Independent Media and the Sunday Times senior political correspondent. Nathi holds qualifications in Creative Writing and Journalism and first cut his teeth into fiction by writing short stories for Drum magazine and the now defunct Pace magazine. He has 17 years of journalism experience at a senior level, an ardent radio and TV commentator. Nathi currently works for the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Sport, Arts and Culture as a communicator and speechwriter.

 

Nathi’s 2020 debut novel, Blood, Blades and Bullets – Anatomy of a Glebelands Hitman, won the 2021 The Book Behind Awards for Best English Novel: Male. The sequel, The Fugitives published in 2021 is his second novel in the Glebelands Hitmen Series. He is working on his third crime novel Assassins Endgame to complete the trilogy. Nathi is also simultaneously writing another separate crime novel, Exposing Justice, that explores crime scene investigation by a female cop as a protagonist.

 

Sifiso Mzobe is a multi-award-winning writer, editor and translator. Mzobe has worked as a crime reporter and editor for The Chatsworth Tabloid, a community newspaper in Durban. His opinion pieces have appeared in The Daily News and The Sunday Times. For over a decade Mzobe has worked with Fundza Literacy Trust, an NGO that works to improve literacy levels of South Africa’s youth by encouraging reading for pleasure, writing for meaning and learning for life. He has also worked extensively with young writers in Fundza’s Mentorship Program, providing intrinsic creative writing guidance to several young writers who have gone on to get published.

 

Mzobe’s debut novel, Young Blood, went on to win the Sunday Times Fiction Prize, the Herman Charles Bosman Prize for Best English Fiction, the SALA First Time Published Author Award and the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. Mzobe’s Young Blood has been translated into German and Spanish. In 2020, Mzobe’s Young Blood was published in the USA and Canada by Catalyst Press, where it was shortlisted for the Hurston Wright Foundation’s Legacy Award. Mzobe writes in English and IsiZulu. He has translated over fifty fiction short stories and the popular young adult series, The Shadow Chasers by Bontle Senne, from English to IsiZulu. His collection of short stories titled Searching for Simphiwe is his latest offering.

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