Bitch, please! I'm Khanyi Mbau

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Lesley Mofokeng. Bitch, please! I'm Khanyi Mbau

Introduction

1. The Queen of England

2. A star is born

3. I hate jazz

4. From Hard Copy to Soul City

5. Bitch, please! I am Khanyi Mbau

6. Sandton’s golden couple

7. A lonely bride

8. The dutiful wife

9. What hides beneath the surface

10. A stranger walks in

11. The alpha female

12. Rented joy, rented love

13. “The Khanyi influence”

14. Overcoming a winter curse

About the author

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To my Mother, to my Gogo

Khanyi Mbau

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Babes turned out to be a canny entrepreneur. He managed to run a printing company during the apartheid years. All his life he insisted that the children learn a musical instrument. Playing music had meant so much to him, he wanted to pass that joy on but warned it was impossible to make a living as a musician. Khanyi’s aunt ensured her upbringing was even more cosmopolitan and unusual. Nikiwe lived and worked in Germany as an engineer for BASF. She was a smart, successful woman who had travelled and seen the world, and her visits left the little girl with an expanded sense of her own potential. There was far more to see and do than the township offered.

As a girl, Khanyi loved cartoons and eating bowls of cereal in bed. Significantly, she was addicted to The Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, an early reality show that celebrated the excesses of the 1980s, showcasing giant homes, expensive cars and yachts. Can there be any doubt this planted an envious thought in her young brain? Something along the lines of “if they can have all that, why can’t I”?

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