Few months later at Nqutu, a phone rang from the congested seating room filled with a lot of youngsters, Mrs Ncobo rambled slowly throbbed by age.

Mrs Ncobo: “I told you to get the hell out” she halts from their departure

“I don’t want to see any of you again making a mess around this house” as she sat near the phone

“You can take your mothers with you” frowned

“Hello!” she smiled from her wonders, inspiring eyes searching for a lost crown prior to madness

Thulisile was admitted at the hospital; in her ward she was joined by all her children, sisters and her mother. Mrs Ncobo stood next to her, Nomalanga held Doris from the other side next to her sisters. The kids made a circle around her bedstead. The twins were on her bed as she seemed happy in her very last sickness.

Mrs Ncobo: “You know your father always picked you” cheerful

“He said you’re the boy he never had against this weeping chicks standing in front of you. They all chuckled up as Senzo stood far strained by the incident.

On the eleventh-hour her mother was greatly aggrieved, Thulisile closed her eyes forever.

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Tell us what do you think: “Thulisile closed her eyes forever.” What do you think will happen to the children, who will take care of them. Can you predict what will happen in the next (last) chapter?