The Mandela Effect Vol 2: Daughter and Wife South Africa has gone through the birth pains of democracy and like many other countries, on the continent, found the realism of a host of new challenges to be faced in a democracy. The Mandela Effect II – Daughter and Wife – is the second book in my...
Ace Mabuza, who lived four houses away from where South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani was assassinated in Boksburg in 1993, is driven home by Vincent Khoza. As Ace exits the car and heads to his front door, he is gunned down by an assassin. Vincent tries to make a run for it, but a...
Pieter Gerhardus Erasmus passes away at four minutes to midnight at 1 Military Hospital, in Pretoria. He is to be laid to rest at Eersterus cemetery. Pieter’s parents blame Pieter’s death on F.W. de Klerk who sold out the country to the ANC. Ace Mabuza tries to comfort Pieter’s father, Frik...
At his flat in Pretoria, Pieter picks up a copy of the Pretoria News newspaper and reads that Ace Mabuza is set for the top job of electricity supplier, Eskom. He returns to the commission that morning and Lindiwe Snr’s last words return to him – “my time on earth is over and yours is running out...
The puppet show was good. Police Commissioner Lawrence Mathibe was answering questions and telling Advocate Dali Mhlaba exactly what he wanted to hear. Pieter realised that he needed a fairy godmother to save him. Mathibe mentions that Pieter had given the order to the cops to open fire on the...
Two weeks later, the session starts at the CSIR Conference Centre in Pretoria. The crowd of protestors outside the venue has tripled in size. Instead of protecting Pieter during the session, all the evidence of the crime pointed towards him, with Vincent Khoza protecting Ace Mabuza. During a break...
Pieter meets Laurie Armstrong, a hotshot lawyer who has been hired to handle his case. Armstrong tells him that the court proceedings is all a show, just like the Billy Flynn scene in the movie, Chicago. Armstrong says that he is going to do a lot of tap dancing just like Billy did in the movie...
Vincent Khoza calls Pieter again to tell him that the commission will start in Pretoria the following week, but that Ace Mabuza’s connections will protect him. Pieter drives to the venue of the commission and angry blacks chant their hatred at him. Vincent Khoza describes the commission as a storm...