Morabaraba

by T.G. Nduna

"The past is not a place you visit. It is a place that visits you."In 1985, twelve-year-old Tshepang Malokwe watched his parents executed by the Bophuthatswana Internal Security Unit. Fleeing into the night with his sister, he was given a new name and a new life. Decades later, as Tshidiso Ntaopane, a successful mining magnate in Botswana, he believes the game of survival is finally when a determined journalist uncovers a deadly conspiracy, and a woman he thought was a business rival is revealed to be the sister he lost, Tshidiso must confront the truth he has buried for thirty-four the dusty streets of Makgobistad to the glittering boardrooms of Gaborone and the halls of power in Pretoria, Morabaraba is a taut, emotionally charged thriller of betrayal, memory, and game of morabaraba is about patience, sacrifice, and strategy. For Tshidiso and Refilwe, it becomes a metaphor for survival - and the fight for justice against a man who built his empire on their parents' the truth finally bring freedom, or will the last move on the board cost them everything?