Description

The title of the story “N’HWARIMBIRHI ‰Û?” is the short form of the proverb which is N’HWARIMBIRHI YIN’WE YI TA TSHWA NKANGA which simple means a person cannot do two jobs at the same time; neither of them will be done properly. This powerful hard hitting Novel describes how Duvula (A senior security officer and as well as a Pastor) who is respected in the community is also a criminala at night. Further Pastor Duvula who is in charge of the security guards which supposed to protect the shops, he has a team of criminals called The Predators which steal from these very shops. Duvula shot and killed Madlawelakutiva (which means the one who was killed of wanting to know) and other fifteen guardsunder his superviision whom he thaught they will report his bad attitude to the owner of the Security Company, Mrs. Mnghemezulu. he killed them during the night while he has given each of them off in the different timesby unlawful gun given by police sergeon Marhandzakudyela (meaning that one who wants to benefit). at the end Duvula is caught while stealing the money from the safe. duvula is shot and upprehended by one of the security personnel whose name is Mulunghisi (which means the one who makes the situation calm). Duvula’s gangs are also arrested and sentenced to 50 years imprisonment each of them. The same applies to the Police Sergeon Marhandzakudyela (meaning who gave Duvula a gun which shot and killed Madlawelakutiva) was expelled from the police services because of his involvement in the criminala actiities with Duvula’s gangs and he also arrested and sentenced to twenty years imprisonment. The same applies to Duvula who was under police guard in the hospital. When he was released, the magistrate has given him R50000.00 Bailout where he case was reminded for a period of one month and the couple of days. Then he crossed the Border and went to the foreign country to look for sangoma who gave him the medicine to freed himself from the court. But the sangoma’s medicine didn’t help because at last he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Therefore, a person cannot do two jobs at the same time; neither of them will be done properly. Please note that the Mini-Examination and its answers are provided at the ebnd of the book as a sample of final Examination in the Literature Section so that the students will know exactly what they will be expected to do in he final Examination. Glossaary, Idioms, Proverbs and the list of references are also provided at the end of the book. All work has been done according to the Department of Basic Education (DBE) Novel Anthology Writing Guideliness, Evaluation Form for Grade 10 to 12 Novel / Short Novel and according to this Book’s Evaluation Report from the Deapartment of Basic Education.