The coronation

That evening Mapula went to her brother Lebo’s house and asked him to accommodate the guards and maidens she had come with but she and her guardian Ngwedi had to leave. Something in her told her that she needed to pray for strength. Ngwedi suggested she goes to the forest and pray there since it was the only quiet place they could find around the capital and it was also close to the river.

She asked the driver to drop her off then leave and that she will call him when she is done then he can pick her up. When she got into the forest, she found a spot then laid down a towel and kneeled on it then started praying. Ngwedi her guardian was on guard while she prayed. “Dear Lord, father you know my heart, you know everything about me, you knew me when I was born and you kn