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By the time he has finished, every inch of the walls is covered with bright pictures – a wallpaper of sheer luxury.
Ways of Dying (1995)
You have always been good at creating beautiful things with your hands.
Ways of Dying (1995)
Camagu has no heart to tell her that Athens is a college town that is even smaller than the nearby town of Butterworth*.
The Heart of Redness (2000)
It is strange how things don’t change in these shanty towns or squatter camps or informal settlements or whatever you choose to call them.
Ways of Dying (1995)
Hymns flow into one another in unplanned but pleasant segues.
Ways of Dying (1995)
We are like two hands that wash each other.
Ways of Dying (1995)
You see, they say they are fighting for freedom, yet they are no different from the tribal chief and his followers. They commit atrocities as well.
Ways of Dying (1995)
When they believe all the children are asleep, they want to be pleasured. The next day they wake up and continue with their empty theories.
Ways of Dying (1995)
The villagers will actually lose more than they will gain from the few jobs that will be created. Very little of the money that is made here will circulate in the village.
The Heart of Redness (2000)
Funerals were held only on Saturday and Sunday mornings those days, because death was not as prevalent then as it is at present.
Ways of Dying (1995)
In those days, they did not allow people of his colour onto any of the beaches of the city, so he could not carry out his ablutions there, as he does today.
Ways of Dying (1995)
We go for what we call a joll. All it means is that we engage in an orgy of drinking, raping, and stabbing one another with knives and shooting one another with guns.
Ways of Dying (1995)
Lunga Tubu's voice coming from the waves, singing a Pavarotti song," he muses wistfully that "maybe one day Pavarotti will adopt him"
The Whale Caller (2005)
For instance, when the Whale Caller wants to consummate relationship with his wife, images of whale interfere at the moment of ex- citement and he goes limp
The Whale Caller (2005)
He has neither touched a whale nor even Sharisha, except with his spirit - with his horn. He knows absolutely that this boat-based whale watching will be abused
The Whale Caller (2005)
They do not like to be called squatters. How can we be squatters on our land, in our own country? Squatters are those who came from across the sea to steal our land
The Whale Caller (2005)
Yes, Bhonco carries the scars that were inflicted on his great-grandfather, Twin-Twin, by men who flogged him after he had been identified as a wizard by Prophet Mlanjeni, the Man of the River. Every first boy-child in subsequent generations of Twin-Twin’s tree is born with the scars.”
The Heart of Redness (2000)
The boats are now restored to their former glory as a reminder of a bygone era and bygone manual practices so that present and future generations can see how fishermen of the old endured the stormy seas in small open boats powered by their own muscles.
The Whale Caller (2005)
The Cult of the Unbelievers began with Twin-Twin. Bhonco Ximiya’s ancestor, in the days of the Prophetess Nongqawuse almost one hundred and fifty years ago. The revered Twin-Twin had elevated unbelieving to the heights of religion.”
The Heart of Redness (2000)
Yet there is nothing that rises, phoenix-like, out of the ashes. All the Whale Caller can do at the scene of the explosion is sit "silent and still as blubber rains on him. Until he is completely larded with it"
The Whale Caller (2005)