Thread by @LMkonqo

Ityala aliboli, abakhe babonana bayophinda babonane futhi #StoryTime

The year was 1992 and I was with my dad in his White Chevrolet Commodore going to town. When we got to town, I am not really sure where we were going but this old man came in front of us, smiled with excitement

... he called out my dad's name "Edz yhooo Mkonqo Edz mfondin yhoo ntanga". My dad was a karateka/judoka okay. The next thing I saw were flying kicks gishiya-gishiya-gishiya iTayma ikhaba lotata umdala imbamba ngeWashing ikorobha ngaye fast wakhawuleza wabokoboko uTata wabantu..

Everyone was shocked in town, I was shocked as they were, then my dad said let's go sabuyela emotweni and we drove back home. I could see the old man was fuming with anger, we drove for a good 30km without him saying a word, but I had to break the silence I asked him "wenzeni..

So I asked him "wenzeni latata..tata?", so my dad began telling me the story. He said that back in the early 70s he was staying "Eziphunzana kwaJuliwe kwaNdokwenza" - people from East London would know the place. So my dad says back in the 70s he had this ntwana (younger than him

...than him) who was his neighbor, this guy was a hunter. My dad says he would go hunt at night or early AMs and by 5-6am he would be back with a springbok/impala/rabbit etc - making fire so that azokoja lenyamakazi aze nayo. So my dad says this guy would call him athi "Bra Eds

...zwakala izosika" so my dad would go and eat meat with this guy before heading for work. He says this guy would sometimes come with monkeys and my dad told him he would never eat a monkey and this guy asked him if he would eat a cat and my dad said never. So it was norm that...

...every morning he would hear this guy arriving, the next thing uGuy will call him, then my dad will go but he made sure to inspect what animal are they feasting on before he could indulge. One morning, he says he didn't here the guy arriving and when he was leaving the house he

..saw the guy ebasela imbiza, he was not braaiing this time but he was cooking. So he told my dad to come and take a piece before he leaves for work and my dad asked him what they were eating and the guy said "nguMvundla Bra Eds" ...so my dad says he saw the skin of it hanged

...hanged ecingweni but it was inside out so he didn't see the fur. Oh well uthi uTata wathatha ke iqatha watya wabulela wavalelisa. He says the guy ate and fed his dogs, then he went back to the forest to hunt again.....As he was further away from my dad he called him "Bra Eds

...Bra Eds usatsho uba soze uyitye ikati (and he had intloko yekati in his hand)..my dad realising that he has been tricked into eating inyama yekati ngomsindo wayileqa lechap and he ran for his life. My dad went to his mom and told him that when he meets his son he will kill him

My dad says ever since that day he has never seen the guy until that particular day in 1992. The guy looked older than my dad but my dad says he was younger than him. He bleksemed the poor guy, I couldn't believe his anger until the same thing happened to me.

PHELILE KE IBALI!!