Shadow over Table Mountain

The Orora - the morning light, has been predicted to make a return in her people's darkest hour. She would return when her people were down in the abyss and on the edge of being wiped out.Lakisha's aunts told her since she was a young child, that she is that morning light. The young girl simply could not believe that. Her whole life long she prepared to become a fashion designer. She was now at the gate of that dream of hers. She only needed to write her final examination and then she could start building her designing business out into the international powerhouse she wanted it to be."Aside from the fact that I'm a young girl, I'm not even interested in politics. Sure, I can see what is happening in the country - but really. Be realistic. What can I possibly do about it, even if I was interested in stuff like that? The government is protected by big business, by the UN, by the Chinese government and who knows whom else. Anyone who has even a little success in fighting the government will immediately be neutralized by these other, far more powerful entities. There is no hope and it would be a hopeless battle."However, destiny does not care about the reality around its chosen champion. Destiny's hero always works on a level way above the real world. This is what Lakisha would soon learn. Her best friend is killed by the corrupt police and she ends up in a jail cell. From that point onwards, things start moving at a breakneck speed. The young girl finally embraces her destiny and the morning light comes alive, setting the world on fire.If you like a story that moves at break neck speed, filled with violent action and political intrigue, then this is the book for you. Table Mountain was always the first landmark that people see when they approach the country from the sea. It was seen by the first Portuguese explorers and also the later Dutch explorers who sailed around the coast of Africa from Europe to the Eastern Lands. Table Mountain was also the first thing that tourists to the country would see as their ship approached the South African coast. Even soldiers returning from wars in Europe would be welcomed back home by the mighty mountain.To the indigenous people - who lived in the Cape for tens of thousands of years - the mountain was the center of their spiritual lives. No matter how far they traveled through the country, they always returned back to the mountain and its holy sites. They called the mountain, Huri Axa. The Tree that comes out of the Sea. These ancient peoples did not only use the top of the mountain - which is flat like a table top - for their rituals, they also used the inside of the mountains for various purposes.Now, in the modern era, the holy mountain had once again become the center of the people's resistance against their enemies.