Böcker av Thembi Ntahane Kamahlangu

He saw the storm synopsisAfter losing her husband, Nomgqibelo leaves her parents and child behind and journeys toPretoria to work as a cleaner at Kruger Bank. She did not just found a job in that, she also foundlove, the love of her life Banzi Magalela.Banzi Magalela meets Nomgqibelo Cazi at the reception at Kruger bank, and he instantlyknew that he wanted to marry her. That was the first and last time Banzi ever saw her. Nomatter how many times he went and stood at the reception at the same time she saw her, shenever came. He embarked on a journey to find her and still he did not find her; he gave up hopeof ever finding her until one day his eyes landed on her while he was about to have coffee at alocal coffee shop. He couldn't his eyes, he knew there and then it was his only chance, so hewent in for the kill.Nomgqibelo did not know that she had stolen someone's heart, she was going about her lifelike she usually did, and then there he was. The man she spilled water all over at the reception.She was suddenly consumed with humiliation. Charismatically Banzi walked over to her andintroduced himself. Within a few minutes they were talking as if they have known each otherfor a while, with Nomgqibelo laughing out loud consumed by Banzi's charm. Banzi made hisintentions clear to her, and she was flattered. She was also in love.A message came to her in a form of a dream, warning her about the storm that was brewingin her new love flame. But her passionate love for Banzi was so strong that it clouded herjudgement. She did not get the message.It was not long until Banzi sent a delegation to Eastern Cape to ask for her hand in marriage.Nomgqibelo took her daughter Nomthi with and they became a family. When challenges come, people forget the vow that says for better and for worse, a vow they take before God.Resentment grew thick and thick with each year of trying for a child with no success until itextinguished their love altogether.Banzi transformed from being the loving husband to be a monster, calling Nomgqibelonames for her inability to give him an heir. Her warm home turned into hell that was burningher from within.When Nomthi was at the prime of her teenage years, her body was going through changes, and she was blooming. Banzi noticed and one night, he came into her bedroom and molestedher. Since then, things completely changed, the rape escalated while Nomgqibelo's healthdeteriorated, so Nomthi hid the rape from her mother.Banzi did not stop, he continued to molest her until she fell pregnant. He could no longerhide it, so he went to tell her mother. Gogo Magalela, Banzi's mother, advised Banzi to takeNomthi to be his wife. The one to bear him an heir.Banzi did as his mother advised. They told Nomthi that it was culture and she had no powerto argue since they paid inhlawulo (damages) when they took her from her mother's family.When Banzi presented the news to Nomgqibelo, she could not handle it and she lost her life.After she was buried, they paid lobola for Nomthi and Banzi made her his wife. After Nomthigave birth to a girl child, Banzi went back to his old monstrous ways. She beat and molested Nomthi. She had nowhere to go, so she was trapped in this loveless marriage until she fellpregnant with a second child.She was scared, not for her but for her children, so she came up with a plan that was to helpher escape this marriage. Anger, desperation and resentment fuelled her desire to break freefrom Banzi so she decided to take the law and put it in her own hand

After the flame synopsisAfter setting Banzi ablaze, Nomthi is arrested and she stands trial for murder, however she receives a suspended sentence. This infuriate gogo Magalela, Banzi's mother, she feels that the law failed her son.Her anger escalates during the reading of the will where she discovers that Banzi left all his money and assets to Nomthi and his children. She sets out to plot revenge and take justice into her own hands, her plan also intends to gain all of Banzi's money and assets.Gogo Mthombeni, a next door neighbour and an adult features perfectly in her plan, she uses her as an accomplice to achieve her goal at revenge. While gogo Mthombeni was worming her way into Nomthi's life, gogo Magalela convinces her eldest son to take Nomthi and make her his second wife. Her ruse falls apart when the elders discovered that she and her son did not follow proper protocol when they married Nomthi off to Banzi.That further fuels her anger, she resorts to witchcraft, and she goes to consult a sangoma to make sure that the shadow of Banzi follows her all the days of her life. The sangoma, Makhosi, casts Banzi's spirit into a snake and keeps it in Nomthi's house.She first see the snake playing with her youngest daughter, Nongcebo, but gogo Mthombeni convinces her that it was an ancestral spirit that symbolises peace and harmony with the ancestors. However, the same night, Nomthi dreams of the snake entering inside her body and she wakes up traumatized and feeling as though she had had sexual intercourse with someone. Little did she know that gogo Magalela married Banzi spirit to her, she ensured that wherever she went, his spirit will follow her like a husband would do.Nomthi was already haunted by Banzi's spirit even before gogo Magalela went to consult Makhosi. She journeyed back home to her grandparents in Eastern Cape to seek help but her grandparents send her back with just an advice to find a sangoma to take Banzi's spirit out of her house.Her grandparents' advice drives her straight into the mouth of a blood hounding beast that is Makhosi ready to consume her. Her path crosses that of gogo Magalela and she falls straight into her revenge trap. Gogo Mthombeni takes her to Makhosi as part of her plan with gogo Magalela to destroy her life. Makhosi performs a ceremony to enforce the covenant as instructed by gogo Magalela claiming to cast Banzi's spirit out of the house.It was not long but the trauma of the spirit came back to haunt Nomthi, she goes back to Makhosi who used her blood and the blood of her children to strengthens the covenant between Nomthi and Banzi whose spirit was cast into a snake.After battling with the spirit that was bonded to her for life, Nomthi makes peace with her miserable life and goes to claim her insurance money. She was not going to live peacefully ever after, however she knew that even if she left, Banzi's spirit will forever haunt her. The spell could never be broken because gogo Magalela swore that till death do them part.