The Mpondo Brothers short story

Once two brothers from the Eastern Cape, Sipho and Thabo, decided to take a chance on their future by leaving South Africa behind and immigrating to England. After months of struggling to make ends meet in the UK, they found an online program promising to help them find well-paying jobs.

It isn't long before Sipho and Thabo discovered that they have stumbled upon something much greater than just legitimate employment. They found themselves embroiled in a drug smuggling cartel, run by a ruthless organized crime kingpin known only as "The Baron."

Even though they were reluctant to get involved, Sipho and Thabo quickly realized that they had no choice but to join the cartel and work for The Baron. However, as they climbed higher and higher in the organization, they realized that they were becoming more and more powerful, and that they could run the cartel themselves.

After a daring coup, Sipho and Thabo became the new kingpins of the drug smuggling cartel, taking control of broader swaths of the British underworld. They started importing more drugs, weaponry, and other illicit goods from countries around the world, making more money than some of the legit businesses operating in the UK.

Upon hearing about this new cartel, many criminal groups in South Africa reached out to make alliances with Sipho and Thabo. The now-organized crime lords turned their attention to their motherland and soon set their sights on expanding their operations to South Africa.

The two brothers, with all their considerable resources, began to influence the political landscape of South Africa, buying out politicians, police officers, and judges. It wasn't long before the cartel began to capture the state, taking control of government buildings and enterprises that they turned to their own advantage.

Sipho and Thabo's empire spanned across continents, terrifying people who dared to cross them, and making them some of the most feared men in the world. Their unstoppable reign of terror continued to grow until many considered them to be untouchable.

While they had achieved their dream of finding a better standard of living, they had done so at the cost of untold lives affected by their relentless thirst for power. The brothers quickly realized that they had traded poverty and oppression in the Eastern Cape for a life of corruption and fear-mongering in England and South Africa.

Written by Hlonelikhaya mkhohlwa 

From Mbizana Eastern cape