Beautiful Tira
Tsholofelo Motau
Jesse Breytenbach

Long time ago there lived a beautiful girl named Tira. Tira lived alone since she was an orphan. People used to go to her to give her food since she had special powers and they believed one day they will marry her or she can make them rich.

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Tira noticed that people only like her because she has powers not because they liked her, so she decided to leave her village to start a new life in the city.

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But there was something about the city that was not right. There many accidents on the roard which made Tira to fear for her life and realised that she left a peaceful home and came to a place of danger , so she went back home

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Beautiful Tira
Author - Tsholofelo Motau
Illustration - Jesse Breytenbach, Rob Owen
Language - English
Level - First paragraphs