Endings & Beginnings

Overview

Two years after her father’s death, 11-year-old Redi Tlhabi meets Mabegzo: handsome, charming, and smooth, but also a rumored gangster, murderer, and rapist. Against her family’s wishes, Redi develops a strong and sometimes uncomfortable attraction to him; she herself doesn’t understand why she is drawn to Mabegzo. When he too is found lying dead in a pool of blood, as her father was, Redi has to try to stay sane. Following her emotional journey into the past to finally humanize Mabegzo, this account interviews the alleged criminal's family and friends. As she fits together the pieces of the puzzle that was Mabegzo, Redi also finds peace and allows her demons to rest.

Author Biography

Redi Tlhabi is a broadcast journalist with 11 years of experience in both television and radio as well as the presenter of the Redi Tlhabi Show on Talk Radio 702 and 567 Cape Talk. She is a columnist for the Sowetan newspaper, a former reporter at Network Radio News and Kaya FM, and a former columnist for Fairlady magazine.