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Shifting Sands – Promise (1997)

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Clip description

A young woman is mixing flour. Voice-over narration by her grandmother Gilladi (Sylvia Clarke) says her granddaughter Ngyamia (Ali Torres) asked her for this story. Flashback; a young Gilladi (Sabrina Sabaan) is given to her aunty (Annie Watson), who did not have children, to prepare her for her promise marriage.