Our lives were in danger. Something my husband did not initially see. According to five of the ten elders , Senior Tafai had proclaimed my husband as the rightful heir . This was to be reasoned at the next groundation . Amani got hold of this information . The elders had broken into two factions- half of them in favour of my husband and the other half in favour of Amani .

Tafai senior was poisoned two days before the groundation and supporters of my husband were slowly being killed in the community . Well, I had no evidence but suspicions as their deaths seemed unnatural. I urged my husband that we should leave. We would contact other communes and be welcomed with open arms . He thought he could reason with his brother .

While all of this was happening , Flo asked me to drive her to Joburg . She was pregnant and not yet showing . She wanted to abort the baby and fly to England. She was done with Amani. I came back a week later , alone . Something cracked in Amani after Flo left . He took three wives and proclaimed himself as the reincarnation of Selassie. The commune became something darker : people were punished and tortured.