Izimpindiselo Zokwagqitshwa

This riveting, multiple-narrated episodic novel centers on Professor Simiso, 'Mr. Situation', Grootboom, a University of the Witwatersrand academic and scholar. Now, as a middle-agedinternationally renowned intellectual in Psychology and the Social Sciences, Simiso, attemptsreconnecting with his life-scorned, embattled wife whom he divorced years ago and abandonedwith three daughters when they were just toddlers.
However, he harbors a dark past: hedonism, (wo)man objectification, and sexual exploitation of youngsters of both genders at the time whenhis scholarly career was taking off. This life - fuelled by postmodernist, liberal views espousedlibertarian values which disregarded African traditions and mores - becomes an albatross aroundhis neck, now as a wiser middle-aged man realizes its baselessness. It haunts him as it returns asrepressed dreams which torment him and force him to face his past.
Having turned a new chapterin his life, he realises that in attempts to move on, he has to learn self-forgiveness in order torehabilitate his estranged wife, abused and exploited middle and youngest daughters, as well asconnect with a vengeful and an unforgiving eldest one, who knows him not as a father and anintellectual, but as a one-night stand parsimonious homo/bi/heterosexual 'blesser' whofrequented an upmarket infamous club, The Tsar, in Sandton.
As skeletons tumble out of thecloset, in the overhang, Simiso also deals with academic findings which challenge his earlier lifeconvictions, insidious manipulation of invisible hands, mistrust, deception on his part, as well asan ambivalent relationship with a duplicitous, demanding feminist colleague. Such challengesprove extremely overwhelming for Simiso as he loses his hard-earned integrity, family, socialand intellectual standing in society and in the academic community.