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“Mina ngangiye ngicabange ukuthi ukuphefumula komuntu okokugcina sekuphuma umndondo, kuba wumsindo ozwakala ukude, ogqamile nosala ulenga emoyeni samcabango ophazanyiswe ungakaphinyiswa. Kanti-ke akunjalo neze, ukuphuma komphefumulo kadadewethu omdala, uFikile, akuyeli ngisho nakancane kulokho. Kuthule kuthe cwaka, akukho msindo ohohoza emphinjeni wakhe. Akukho nakuqhwisha komzimba okuwumlibe. Akukho ngisho nokuzabalaza kodwa lokhu, okuwumzamo wokulwela impilo. UFikile ushona kalula nje, wena owabona isibani sithi lwaphe, kuphele kanjalo ukukhanya.”
Njengoba udadewabo ka-Anele Mabuza, uFikile, ebulawe umdlavuza webele, nobaba wakhe esalala kobandayo, umama wakhe esevuke wazithintitha ngemva kweminyaka ezinikele etshwaleni kanti nomfowabo omncane uMbuso, edliwa intukuthelo enganqamuki, akukho angakwenza u-Anele ngaphandle kokuba azibambe ziqine. Kodwa uzokwenza yini lokho? Phela uma kukhulunywa iqiniso, akazange azinikele ekutheni umndeni wakhe uzoba umthwalo osemahlombe akhe. Ngokuqinisekile amaphupho akhe ayiqiniso.
Le ncwadi ethi Sesizophila Ngale Ndlela iyindaba yomndeni enohlonze, egcwele ukudumazeka, ukuzidela, ukuxolela kanye nothando.
“I imagined a dying person’s last breath as something resembling an exclamation mark, distinct and hanging mid-air like an interrupted thought. My older sister Fikile’s last breath before she dies is nothing of the sort. There is no rattling noise at the back of her throat. No relentless twitching. No clinging to life. Fikile dies with no more fuss than a switch of a light bulb.”
With her sister, Fikile, dead from breast cancer, her father long gone, her mother emerging from years of slumber, and her younger brother, Mbuso, consumed with rage that refuses to settle, Anele Mabuza has no choice but to collect herself and grow up. Or will she? Because if truth be told, she has not signed up to be her family’s caretaker. Surely her dreams are valid? The Ones with Purpose is a remarkable story of family, disappointment, sacrifice, forgivingness, and love.
ISBN: 9780796140135
Epub ISBN: 9780796140142
Date Released: February 2024
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback
Dimensions: 13cm x 19.8cm
