Bogga 13aad - Somali Talk

18 April, 2009 XOG-MAAL 15
The Towed tuck shop
Two Somali shopkeepers slept one
night in their Shop in Delf, Cape
Town, they knew little about
where they will wake up the fallowing
day, and none did they prepared
for mysterious location.
After long sound sleep of the
night, they woke up to what would
be yet the unbelievable surprise for
their entire life; one of them
opened the door and saw the surrounding
is another place 10km far
away from their original location.
How did it happen?
They spoke about incident to
Xog-Maal, according to them,
their shop was made from a
container, and there was a rival
South African shop owner near
their shop, they said he hired a
tow away truck with heavy
machinery lifters, in the midnight
he simply picked the box and
transported as far as 10km away
from his shop.
Other shop owners who were
operating in the new location
confronted the two fiercely for
why they opened a shop in area;
the angry shop owners couldn‟t
believe the two don‟t know how
they made their way in the
place.
Lastly they hired a tow away
truck and went back to the
original place, but due to dispute
with the rival shop owner, their
tuck shop remained closed.
Lover dies, loved escapes, and
the desperate love interpreter
The long-held view by many
Somalis that South African hates
them is now proving to be wrong,
here we have a story about SA citizen
who loves a young Somali
man to the extent that she killed
her self.
Botisha was 21 years old township
girl, years back she may have
never tough of ever meeting someone
from Somalia, her rare encounter
with them may have been
images from TVs, but lately, men
from Somalia happened to be her
neighbor as they opened a shop
near their home.
The only things she interested
about them were the low priced
groceries that her mother would
tell her to buy from them as they
are affordable and within short distance.
One day she had fallen love with
Hashim, 24, one of the shopkeepers,
a love that claimed her life
lastly, she told him about her feelings
but he failed to understand as
he can‟t speak English, she managed
to ask help from another English
speaking Somali, Abdinasir.
Abdinasir “the love interpreter”
translated the romantic feelings
between the two, he then tries to
bridge between them, he manages
to convince Hashim to accept verbally
the proposed love relation,
Hashim accepts without surety.
Time passes, then Botisha advances
her love acts, but Hashim
finds it odd and uncomfortable,
then decides to pull out, less did he
knew about the fort coming tragic
destiny. One day the small village
woke up to the shocking news that
Botisha hanged her self in the toilet
because of her failed love relation
with the Somali guy.
On hearing the news of the
Botisha‟s death, Hashim run away
out of fear for his life, he though
that the girls relatives will kill him
because of the incident.
Another Somali killing in the
cursed Delf.
One Somali national is gunned
down and other two were
wounded after armed robbers
stroked in their shop, Delf, outside
Cape Town.
Five alleged perpetrators were
arrested only when they tried to
rob a South African owned shop,
according to Cape Times news
article cried on page 3, Tuesday
14 April, Delf police spokesman
Joe Wilson named the victims as
Abdul Mohamed Sabir, 30, ( The
dead one) Abdul Kadar,26, and
Libaan Kadar, 25. Delf is know
for its brutal Somali killings in
recent past
Xog-Maal reporter in Port
Elisaberth reports that a Somali
man was shot dead by unknown
armed men in his shop outside
the city, the details were sketchy
and no further information were
available at the time of going to
press last night.
Reported By Abdi Nazir
Ahmed Bashiir