With Qhawe in her life, she is forced to make amends with her past and to forge a stronger relationship with her sisters, all of them, especially the one who has not gotten along with them all. She was raised by her sisters and her dad especially, his status as chief didn’t make it easier. Her mother walked out on her and her sisters when Naledi was just one. Naledi comes with baggage, mother issues. She’s a medical doctor by profession and is as stubborn as both Hlomu and Zandile. Naledi is in the moment she meets the family at Qhawe’s mini birthday celebration. As with all the wives to follow (except Zandile), Hlomu’s approval is important to the brothers and without her approval, no girl will move from girlfriend to wife. He’s all about family, loyalty, honesty and love but Naledi doesn’t get to what level. ”Chawe”, as is lovingly called by his Tshwana Princess, because she can’t quite get the ‘Q’ in his name, is very similar to his brothers. Like any woman, Naledi feels she will live in the shadow of a former lover, who would’ve made it to the aisle had her life not ended. In the previous book, Qhawe had made a strong connection to Oleta, whose life ended abruptly and Qhawe didn’t quite recover.

They meet with Qhawe, over a parking spot and as they say, the rest is history. Naledi is a Tshwana Princess, her father the village chief. We’ve read about Mqhele’s Hlomu (who was the first wife and a very impactful figure in the lives of the Zulu brothers), Nkosana’s Zandile (with an unreal kind of beauty, inner strenghth and stubborn), the last is about Naledi, Qhawe’s queen. And read it in three days! It was somewhat of a sad read because of the realisation that it was the last of the books and Dudu, if you are reading this, it’s a NATIONAL CALL – you have got to write more books! We need a book on how the Zulu brothers see things, we need more. It wasn’t my turn yet but I couldn’t resist the temptation to take it and read it.

They, more specifically Lungie, introduced me to the Hlomu Series. As I mentioned before, I have a circle of friends (who are also colleagues) that I share books with.

The end dudu busani dube