ARTS & CULTURE

Seated under the shade of an apricot tree alone, Tapiwa was strumming his guitar for a good jam that refused to birth. He had tried various strums to no avail hoping to strike a good note in the end.

‘A boy, 12, was shot dead, yesterday afternoon in Soweto, by a shop owner, when he tried to steal a chocolate.’ A newspaper read.

Coming to South Africa in 1999, Tapiwa had struggle to survive in the world, where he knew no one, instead he had found himself roughing it up in the streets of Youville for virtually a year before he’d met Mandla, who offered him a place to stay.

This feels like being in love with someone in a glass, you can’t touch, kiss or smell her perfume or even worse, you don’t even know the colour of her eyes.

Gunslingers have soft spot for three things, beautiful ladies, guns and money, but one thing they hate the most, is people who find fetish in hurting other people.

Every fortnight, these very cops would come to his place to collect the money he’d made from selling their merchandise.