Coming up on Khumbul'ekhaya tonight and the rest of December:
Episode 6Broadcast date: Wednesday, 12 December, 2007
Story 1: DimakatsoKidnapped at the age of twelve and married to a stranger, Dimakatso finds herself completely alone in the world with nobody to turn to but her kidnapper. She pleads with Khumbul’ekhaya to assist her in finding and being returned to her family thus finding a sense of belonging.
Story 2: NhlanhlaA decade has come and gone since Nhlanhla last saw let alone spoke to his sister. He writes in to Khumbul’ekhaya to try and salvage the little that is left of his relationship with his long lost sister. Family bonds are hard to break when you treasure those close to your heart.
Episode 7Broadcast date: Wednesday December 19
Story 1: ThumekaPamela wrote a letter to Khumbul’ekhaya asking that they assist her with her cousin Thumeka who is trying to leave her uncontrollably abusive live-in boyfriend.
Thumeka calls home and asks for assistance in coming back, but each time the family sends her money, she doesn’t come back home. Pamela is afraid that Thumeka will eventually come home in a body bag and requests that Khumbul’ekhaya intervenes.
Story 2: GeorginaIn the second part of the episode we meet Georgina one of six children. She lives with her aunt and her younger brother. Her mother lives in the same area with her boyfriend and two other children and never visits her and her brother.
Georgina asks that Khumbul’ekhaya help her confront her mother about the children that she is constantly leaving and giving away. She also would like to meet one of her siblings that her mother gave to another family.
Episode 8Broadcast date: Wednesday, December 26
Story 1: NtebohengNteboheng a young woman lives in Hillbrow with her baby and the baby’s father. She would like to meet her father whom she’s never met. There was no bad blood between him and Nteboheng’s mom he just had to take his late wife’s sister as his own because it is custom to do so.
Story 2: Takalani In the second story we meet Takalani a Venda speaking woman who was raised by her mother and father together with her two brothers. Their mother died in Venda talking about her home in Botswana where she hadn’t been in over 40 years.
Khumbul’ekhaya’s team manages to track down the late mother’s family in Botswana and discover that even though Takalani and her brothers have lead a very tough life, their mother’s family is actually the ruling chiefdom of the Bahurutse tribe of Molepolole Village in Botswana.
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