Soon after, the king took a new wife who was beautiful, but very vain, and who possessed supernatural powers. She also ran a soccer club that kidnapped and murdered random members of the population for the queen’s entertainment. The king already had sixteen other wives, chosen from girls in his kingdom who were of a nubile age – seven or eight years old – and children numbering in the hundreds, not all of them legitimate. The king depended on government grants and performed struggle accounting to maintain his huge household. The new wife was haunted by a tokoloshe, whom she would often ask, "Tokoloshe under my bed, who is the most transformed of us all?" and to which the tokoloshe would always reply, "’tis you" But after Snow Black became seven (which is the official age wherein a girl becomes a maiden and therefore fair game for all the men in the kingdom) when she asked her tokoloshe, it responded, "Queen, you are full transformed, ’tis true, but Snow Black more transformed is than you."
And lo, the queen was sore distressed, flew into a jealous rage, drank three liters of vodka, whipped a youngster to death, and ordered an illegal immigrant to take Snow Black into a squatter camp to be executed with an AK-47 bullet to the back of the head. She demanded that the illegal immigrant return with Snow Black’s heart as proof. The illegal immigrant took Snow Black into the squatter camp, but found himself unable to kill her. Instead, he let her go after relieving her of her virginity, believing it would cure the horrible disease he was suffering from. He brought the queen the heart of a young springbok which he’d liberated using a wire trap from a game farm belonging to a white oppressor farmer whom he’d dispatched with the AK-47 bullet meant for Snow Black.
Snow Black discovered a tiny shack in the squatter camp, belonging to seven vertically challenged individuals, where she rested. The vertically challenged individuals had to share a hovel with six of their brethren because apartheid had denied them proper housing. They were seven brothers because their father had refused to use the free condoms handed out at the government clinic. He saw condoms as a sizeist plot against vertically challenged people, designed to keep their numbers down. The people who were supposed to build proper houses for the populace stole the money and the houses were never built, ‘tis true, but apartheid made them do it. Meanwhile, the queen asked her tokoloshe once again, "Who’s the most transformed of them all?", and was horrified when the tokoloshe told her that Snow Black, who was alive and well and living with the vertically challenged individuals, was still the most transformed of them all.
Three times the queen disguised herself and visited the vertically challenged individuals’ shack trying to kill Snow Black. She had to defraud a bank to raise funds for these ventures. The queen wasn’t really a bad person, in spite of her criminal tendencies, you understand. No, the queen was impoverished by the cruel colonialists in spite of her being royalty, and it was her poverty that caused her to act in that beastly manner.
First, disguised as an informal trader, the queen offered colorful stay-laces and laced Snow Black up so tight that she fainted, and the queen took her for dead. Snow Black was revived by the vertically challenged individuals when they loosened the laces. Next, the queen dressed as a different old woman, wearing a wig that looked for all the world like plastic raffia, and combed Snow Black’s hair with a poisoned comb. Snow Black again collapsed, and once more the vertically challenged individuals saved her.
Lastly the queen made a poisoned apple, and in the disguise of a countrywoman offered it to Snow Black. She was hesitant, so the queen cut the apple in half, ate the half which had no poison and gave the poisoned part to Snow Black. She ate the apple eagerly and immediately fell into a deep stupor. When the vertically challenged individuals found her, they could not revive her, so they placed her in a glass coffin, thinking that she had died. The funeral party lasted seven days and seven nights, financially ruined the vertically challenged individuals and was accompanied by the consumption of huge quantities of Black Label.
Time passed, and a prince travelling through the land saw Snow Black in her coffin. The prince was enchanted by her beauty and instantly fell in love with her. He begged the vertically challenged individuals to let him have the coffin. The prince and his men carried the coffin away, but as they went they stumbled because of a pothole in the ill-maintained road. The coffin jerked and the piece of poison apple flew out of Snow Black’s mouth, awakening her. The prince then declared his love and soon a wedding was planned. Several oxen were to be slaughtered in the prince’s suburban garden with the maximum amount of pain and bellowing from the animals, but it was only his racist neighbours who complained about the animals’ suffering. Transformed people knew that this was necessary to appease the forefathers.
The vain queen, still believing that Snow Black was dead, again asked her tokoloshe who was the most transformed in the land and yet again the tokoloshe disappointed her by responding that, "You, my queen, are transformed; it is true. But the young queen is a thousand times more transformed than you."
Not knowing that this new queen was indeed her stepdaughter, she arrived at the wedding, and her heart filled with the deepest of dread when she realized the truth.
As punishment for her wicked ways, she was sent into Hillbrow naked clutching only a cell phone and a wallet stuffed with R200 notes, where she was killed after being gang-raped.