It was hot sunny day in LeSotho Maseru, queen mother maBotle was in labour ready to bless the world with her second child. Under the meticulous care of their trusted royal midwife as well as two palace maidens, she was in the room screaming her lungs out due to the unbearable pains. King Lerumo and the elders anxiously awaited the birth of a prince or princess. “She has been in there for more than 4 hours now and still no update, what could be taking so long? Because I can hear my queen is in pain” said the king worried that something is wrong with his queen and child. “ I can feel you pain my king but there is nothing we can do at the moment but wait and let nature take its course” said one of the one of the king’s elders Mosia trying to comfort his king seeing how distraught he was about the situation. “ I hear you but when the prince was born the queen was only in labour for 2 hours, why is this one taking so long” said another elder, while they were still talking the weather changed outside, dark clouds started to form and wind started blowing hard that the roof of the palace started shaking. “Look at this weather, maybe the gods are angry at us for something or the baby is already dead” said elder Simon, who did not like the fact that Lerumo was king. His father passed on when he was young, back then his father has been king. Hus assumption was that the throne would remain in his family waiting for him to grow but things had gone in another way with the throne being passed on to Lurumo’s side. “That would be good news for us then.” Said elder Lance who is friends with elder Simon “What do you mean?” asked elder Simon “ I mean we can use the baby being dead to accuse the queen of being a witch and you know what our laws say about witches in the kingdom.” Elder Simon smiled at the thought of what could happen if the queen were accused of being a witch. “I see where you are going with this, then finally our cousin can the throne and we will be well taken care of.” They both nodded at each other smiling. The weather was getting worse outside, the wind was so harsh that the people of the kingdom started getting scared. Some took their children and hid them under the beds while the women sat on grass mats and the men on the bar stool. All sitting anxiously waiting for the worst to happen. At the royal palace in the throne room the king and his elders were also worried about what could be the reason for such a storm as is it summer and storms are expected in winter, and in summer only warm summer rain is expected. “Gods of my ancestors what could be the reason behind this, please show us the way and save our people from this and punish me instead.” Said the king begging for their ancestors to show him the way. “Don’t worry my king everything will turn out as it should.” Said elder Lance smiling thinking of his plan should things turn out the way he planned. “What are you smiling about Lance, are you now the eye of the gods that tells the future of this kingdom.” Asked elder Mosia annoyed by Lance’s tactics. “I am not the eye of the gods, but all am saying is that everything happens for a reason and the gods are always watching.” Said elder Lance smugly looking at elder Mosia. “Lance is right, besides nothing happens in this kingdom without the god’s approval.” Said elder Simon supporting his friend. “The way you both are so annoying its like you are not elders, please do keep your mouths if you have nothing better to say until we hear from the gods why we are in this predicament.” The king got enough of the bickering between his elders and decided to intervene. “ That is enough now elders we have more pressing matters to deal with, elder Lance please do go and call the chief priest here to come and tell us what the gods are angry about” elder Lance left mumbling under his breath. In the labour room the queen was giving birth to the princess of the land, after pushing a few times a loud baby cry filled the room and the rain outside started pouring heavy, hail stones dropped from the sky, as strong winds blowing with force. The apparent weather situation got the whole kingdom scare. “It’s a girl!” exclaimed the midwife. “My princess.” said the queen in a low exhausted voice. The midwife sent one of the maidens to go and inform the king of the birth of their princess. The maiden left in a hurry going to the throne room where the king and his advisors were. She got there and bowed her head to show respect to the king “As you were dear maiden” she straightened up. “My king, I was sent by the midwife to inform you that the queen has given birth to a princess.” The king smiled upon hearing the news. “We praise the gods of our land, my thanks dear maiden” the maiden left, the king could not contain his smile while Simon was fuming on the inside that yet again his plan will not work, he wondered what it would take to finally get what he wanted. But one thing that was clear was that he was not giving up. The king was still troubled by weather outside and wondered if the chief priest will be able to shed some light on the matter. While he was still consumed by his thoughts the chief priest was heard coming by his chanting and granting as he come closer to the throne room. That made everyone in the room tense because they knew that the gods of the land have spoken.
Bakoena KingdomThe chief priest stood outside the throne room, chanting and praising the Bakoena ancestors, his bag of bones hanging on the side on this shoulder with the sling going down his hip and moving around as he paced granting and chanting the Bakoena clan names. Inside the throne room the tension was raising with each passing minute, as they anxiously waited for the chief priest to enter and deliver the message from the gods. The chief priest finally went inside, he was dripping wet from the rain, he went and stood in the middle of the room facing the king. " My king, the gods have shown favour on you this day, they gave you a gift, a rain queen and as of today this land shall prosper because of her but she is to be treated well for you shall shed tiers should you make mistakes with her" said the chief priest to the king " My thanks eye of the gods, what do you mean we must not ma
Bakoena KingdomThe following morning the king and queen were in their sleeping chamber, it was early sunrise but the king was awake looking at his queen who laid beside him and wondered what he has done right for him to be blessed with such a beautiful soul. As if that was not enough the gods also blessed him with a prince and a princess. While King Lerumo was still admiring his wife the queen woke up, when she opened her eyes, she was met by those of the king. " Sunrise greetings my king" she greeted him with a smile. " Sunrise greetings my queen, how was your slumber?" he asked returning the smile his queen graced him with. "Wonderful my dear, I am well rested." she said still smiling at him as if it was the very first time they met. "That is good to hear my dear, I was thinking that after 10 days when the umbilical cord has fallen off the princess we should hold a ceremony to formally introduce her to the gods, our people and other kingdoms.
Bakoena KingdomThe king came back from his royal duties with anger radiating through his body, he was riding his horse at full speed, he stopped at the palace gates then got off the horse and went inside with his guard right by his side. " Ask the maidens to bring me bathing water, I will be in my chamber" the guard bowed his head and went without a word, when the king is like this no one dared say anything to him. The guard ran to the where the maidens were, " One of you must take bathing water to the king, you will find him in his chamber" he then walked away bumping into the queen. " My apologies my queen I was not looking to where I was going" he quickly apologised to the queen, but her concern was that he has never acted this way so surely something was wrong. "What is happening?" She asked worried that something might have happened to the king. “My queen, the meeting the king and I went to didn’t go well, I don’t have all the details but
Bakoena KingdomAfter a while, the chief priest instructed the queen to take the princess inside. She did as told and as soon as she stepped inside with the princess the rain stopped, the clouds cleared and the sun came out. People were shocked and all the kings who has princes quickly requested to have a word with king Lerumo. They had already sensed that the child was favoured and none of them wanted to miss out. The king asked his personal guard to tell the kings to wait for him in the throne room where the meeting will be held. The king then called the elders and went to the guest chamber.
Bakoena Kingdom The celebrations went on until late in the evening, other royals left only a few remained. Elder Simon and Lance were on the lookout for the mystery man as he told them to leave and wait for him at the palace. As they were complaining about how tired they were of waiting and how long day of a they had. A stone was thrown at their direction, they got startled as it was dark out, they looked at each other wondering who could be throwing stones at them. Another stone was thrown, and they decide to go and investigate, they saw the man they were waiting for in the bushes.
Bakoena Kingdom16 years have passed, the princess was in high school studying in South Africa, Cape Town to be exact and was now 16 years old. She goes home only on school holidays but has a bodyguard as per the king’s orders. Prince Tokelo her brother is now 26 years old and owns a law firm with his partner and brother Lebo. The kingdom has prospered over the years, the palace was renovated and now looked like a village on its own. They also own different farms and trade in livestock, crops and have shares in a coal mine. The people also benefited a lot from all the developments, they renovated their huts and were able to send their children to school after a new school was built in the kingdom.
Bakoena KingdomThe next day prince Tokelo woke up early to prepare for his journey to the palace since he did not make the journey the previous day. He did his morning routine and put his travelling bag in the boot and drove to the palace. After an hour and half, he arrived at the palace and the guards opened for him. His personal guard came to help him with his bag. “Sunrise greetings Tiisetso” the prince greeted his guard; they have always been close as they grew up together and are around the same age. Tiisetso’s family has always been personal guards to the royal family, from his great grandfather to him. “Gre
Bakoena KingdomPrince TokeloI finally arrived at the capital and I was so tired after driving to and from the palace without rest now I need it. It has been a long day but before I rest, I need to contact Lebo. I dialled his number and waited for him to answer. “Brother” his voice came on the line. “They have arranged marriage for our princess man.” I say to him “That’s bad but we knew this will happen sooner or later.” I sigh “I prefer later man, she’s our little sister.” He sighs on the other end. “So, who is she getting married to and does she know?” he asked, his always been the rational one between us. “She doesn’t know man but when I spoke to her, she didn’t have a problem at all with getting ma