(…) THE ONLY THING MY FATHER BESTOWED UPON ME AT BIRTH WAS A NAME, ROLIHLAHLA. IN XHOSA, ROLIHLAHLA LITERALLY MEANS ‘PULLING THE BRANCH OF A TREE’, BUT ITS COLLOQUIAL MEANING MORE ACCURATELY WOULD BE ‘TROUBLEMAKER’. I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT NAMES ARE DESTINY OR THAT MY FATHER SOMEHOW DIVINED MY FUTURE, BUT IN LATER YEARS, FRIENDS AND RELATIVES WOULD ASCRIBE TO MY BIRTH NAME THE MANY STORMS I HAVE BOTH CAUSED AND WEATHERED.