Chapter 4 Bhekithemba
Fewyears after Marcus was taken
away Bhekithemba Nyathi droveunder
cover of darkness upthesame road
W This was his secondtrip his first was a few months earlier Hewalked through
thebarrensunflower field to the house and thought about themanheused to
wantto be
W It was 1980 andBhekithemba how things used to be then he remembered
thepain fear Uncertainty with teargas
W He came allthis PrinceCharles his grandfather had known the
waytosee Britsh roya
family hewas a businessman whoworked sincetheage16 for Mr Mackenzie at his
GeneralGood store
Hesuggested to Mr Mackenzie toopena bottle store beforehedied hedidandwas
theonlybottlestore around It was a success so beopened another one itbecame
very successful
Bythetimehedied CosmosNyathidiedage 77 said Mackenzie openedbottle store
wGeneralGoodstoreonlystorekm outsidemissionstationThen heagreedopenbottlestoreverysuccessful
thenopened anotherone invillage andcosmos manage it
wwhenCosmosNyathidied MrMackenzie cometo another witsend Mr Mackenzie tookoverbeca
a verysuccessful business own hetookprideinbeing agood African christianhardworkingclean
andsober
w Healsotookpridefacthis fatherwas a goodAfrican andeven mettheroyalfamilyWhenRoy
familycameto declarethecountryasindependent hewasfilledprideandsadnessthatthey wouldno
longer bepartof the BritishEmpire
WHelikedbeing colonizedwhichis Ironyas hehas a completely colonial mindset
wHowever Bhevithemba wasverydisappointedas thePrincewasuninterestedinhimandthewholethingwasantic
wThenmanwithdreadlocks bobMarleygotonstage and called out Viva againandagainThiscomplet
shockedhimandthentherewas a loudnoiseeveryoneranaway but Bnekithembadidntmovene fet
nitedandpartof something hefelt anemotion ofBelonging and anewprideinHIScountryThis
isthetheme of Belonging throughexperience
WHethenwrote a letter to the editor ofthe newspaperPlace andthemanHimselfpraised his
writinggivinghim a full scholarship to studyjournalism
Fewyears after Marcus was taken
away Bhekithemba Nyathi droveunder
cover of darkness upthesame road
W This was his secondtrip his first was a few months earlier Hewalked through
thebarrensunflower field to the house and thought about themanheused to
wantto be
W It was 1980 andBhekithemba how things used to be then he remembered
thepain fear Uncertainty with teargas
W He came allthis PrinceCharles his grandfather had known the
waytosee Britsh roya
family hewas a businessman whoworked sincetheage16 for Mr Mackenzie at his
GeneralGood store
Hesuggested to Mr Mackenzie toopena bottle store beforehedied hedidandwas
theonlybottlestore around It was a success so beopened another one itbecame
very successful
Bythetimehedied CosmosNyathidiedage 77 said Mackenzie openedbottle store
wGeneralGoodstoreonlystorekm outsidemissionstationThen heagreedopenbottlestoreverysuccessful
thenopened anotherone invillage andcosmos manage it
wwhenCosmosNyathidied MrMackenzie cometo another witsend Mr Mackenzie tookoverbeca
a verysuccessful business own hetookprideinbeing agood African christianhardworkingclean
andsober
w Healsotookpridefacthis fatherwas a goodAfrican andeven mettheroyalfamilyWhenRoy
familycameto declarethecountryasindependent hewasfilledprideandsadnessthatthey wouldno
longer bepartof the BritishEmpire
WHelikedbeing colonizedwhichis Ironyas hehas a completely colonial mindset
wHowever Bhevithemba wasverydisappointedas thePrincewasuninterestedinhimandthewholethingwasantic
wThenmanwithdreadlocks bobMarleygotonstage and called out Viva againandagainThiscomplet
shockedhimandthentherewas a loudnoiseeveryoneranaway but Bnekithembadidntmovene fet
nitedandpartof something hefelt anemotion ofBelonging and anewprideinHIScountryThis
isthetheme of Belonging throughexperience
WHethenwrote a letter to the editor ofthe newspaperPlace andthemanHimselfpraised his
writinggivinghim a full scholarship to studyjournalism
