First published in 2011 as 'Aquilina (kana kuti, Reururo yaHatifari Maforimbo). A translation of a story about a young man's descent into pathological misogyny, with a chilling hint at the supernatural...
A young teacher, Hatifari Maforimbo, enters Tswakata Polic Station one morning and reports that he has just murdered his live-in girlfriend, Aquilina. His lengthy statement takes us to his troubled past, and his descent into what the psychiatrist describes as "pathological misogyny" leading to this tragic, brutal conclusion. However, there is a hint of something the police are not equipped to contend with, something ghostly...