Heart of a Strong Woman

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Xoliswa Nduneni-Ngema. Heart of a Strong Woman

Dedication

Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Photo section

Endnotes

Acknowledgements

Table of Contents

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With not an iota of embarrassment at being told he was shelling me for the second time, he simply said, ‘Sorry, when I shelled you for the first time I was probably drunk. Remember I was a heavy drinker then. I have mended my ways. I have stopped drinking.’

And indeed, as I was to discover, he had stopped drinking. He had also converted to Islam. It did look like he had turned over a new leaf. In due course, once I’d forgiven his bumbling ways of shelling me endlessly, I gave him a chance. Our romance began. He was good to be around. He made me laugh. The laughter made me feel happy, at ease in his presence. He respected me. He loved me. Although I had no experience in the business of falling in love, I thought what I felt for him was love. It did not matter that he was so poor that he had only two pairs of pants (with patches galore) and maybe two or three shirts. He was always neat. It also took me a long time to discover that he did not have a place of his own.

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