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By Bessie Head 15 from Blame Me on History by Bloke Modisane 30 Capping It All by Lawrence Mpanya 37 Life at Home by Joel Matlou 38 Foe J.M. Coetzee NEW When Susan Barton is marooned on an island in the middle of the Atlantic she enters the world of two men. One is a mute negro called Friday; the other is BOOKS Robinson Cruso. The island is a society already at work. Its rules are strict and simple: survival, industry and order. Cruso is master and Friday is slave. Susan watches the creation of a barren world — an architecture of stone terraces above bleak and empty beaches — and waits to FROM be rescued. Back in London, with Friday in tow as evidence of her strange adventure, she approaches the author Daniel Foe. But Foe is less interested in the history of the island than in the story of Susan herself, and battle RAVAN lines are drawn between writer and subject. Sole witness to this contest, as he was to the mystery of Cruso's island, is the silent Friday. J.M. Coetzee's previous novel Life & Times of Michael K won the 1983 Booker Prize. 157pp. R23,00 Mafangambiti The Story of a Bull Staffrider Series No. 28 T. N. Maumela For the boys of a Venda village life revolves around the fortunes of Mafangambiti, a fighting bull whose victories are the talk of the countryside and whose rampages are destructive enough to bring his life into question. 1987 COSATU Workers' Diary Every page in this closely observed study of a cattle- herding boyhood vibrantly evokes the African setting. And there is no mistaking the epic quality of the story Since the Durban strikes in 1973 the rapid growth of the and the heroic stature of its protagonist, Mafangambiti workers' movement in South Africa has earned it a cent­ — rugged, fearless, challenging, indomitable. Inevitably ral role in the struggle for a new South Africa. Twelve he becomes a symbol of Africa's will to endure, to sur­ years of experience lie behind the formation of COSATU vive, to come back. (Congress of South African Trade Unions) founded on 1 Originally written in Tshivenda, Maumela's tale will December 1985. This attractive Workers' Diary is a challenge a place among the classics of South African fic­ response to this growth and draws on central themes of tion. working class tradition. The Diary provides dates and illustrations of major events in the workers' struggle. 112pp. Rll,95 Workers, students, activists and those interested in the workers' struggle in South Africa will find this a welcome daily resource. The Novels of 200pp. approx. R7,00 Nadine Gordimer History from the Inside From the Pit of Hell to the Stephen Clingman Spring of Life Nadine Gordimer is one of South Africa's most renown­ ed writers. Yet few are aware of how deeply her work has Staffrider Series No. 28 responded to its immediate historical environment over the last forty years. Her novels provide a 'history from Daniel P. Kunene the inside' of her world in this period. In the most in­ formed study on Gordimer available, Clingman traces a developing consciousness of history through Gordimer's The themes of bondage and freedom are central to novels, relating each to the moment from which it Kunene's writing. His characters are often people emerges, and which it in turn illuminates 'from the inside' facing significant choices, a man who must choose — from the political triumph of the National Party in whether or not to join a strike, a young boy who must 1948, to the vibrant social and political world of the cross a swollen stream to reach his home, a man who 1950s, to the Sharpeville massacre and beyond. Through sees the armed struggle as the only option left open to all this the larger historical, social and ideological codes him. embedded in the novels are revealed in their wider signifi­ Through careful observation of character and a cance. Finally a 'deep history' is investigated: the subtle understanding of the relationship between the possibility that there is an historical unconscious in individual and his community, Kunene explores the Gordimer's fiction, and the split position from which of complexity of the choice, its implications, its potential necessity she writes. to enslave or liberate. 148pp. R10.50 288 pp. R22,00 CONTENTS Volume 6 Number 4 1987 STORIES The Spirit of Two Worlds by Jayapraga Reddy 2 From the Backseat by Greg Latter 5 Blind Justice by Stanley Loba Mabena 11 The Lovers by Bessie Head 15 From Blame Me on History by Bloke Modisane 30 Capping It All by Lawrence Mpanya 37 Life at Home by Joel Matlou 38 POEMS Lancelot Maseko, Kaizer M. Nyatsumba 4 Nhlanhla Paul Maake,Moritso Makhunga 13 Norman Tshikhova 20 Stephen Gray, Patrick Fitzgerald 21 Farouk Stemmet, Allan Kolski Horwitz, Robert van Niekerk, 22 Kriben Pillay, Jeremiah Masoga 28 Dumakude kaNdlovu 29 Kelwyn Sole 44 Chipane L Kgaphola 48 FEATURES Zimbabwean Women by Biddy Partridge 7 Women's Day 23 Abdullah Ibrahim Speaks 26 When will they come home?' A mother at a DPSC meeting in Johannesburg listens hopefully for news of detained members of her ramily — photo by Eric Miller, Afrapix GRAPHICS Mzwakhe 2, 11, 30, 36 Jeff Lok 5, 37 Percy Sedumedi 15 TRIRUTES Staff rider magazine is published by Ravan Press, P.O. Box 31134, Braamfontein 2017, South Africa. (Street Bessie Head by Cherry Clayton 14 Address: 23 O'Reilly Road, Berea.) Copyright is held Bloke Modisane by Es'kia Mphahlele . 33 by the individual contributors of all material, including all graphic material published in the magazine. Anyone wishing to reproduce material from the magazine in any Front cover illustration: Mzwakhe Nhlabatsi form should approach the individual contributors c/o Back cover photograph: Biddy Partridge the publishers. Printed by Blackshaws (Pty) Ltd., Cape Town. HFFRIDER, VOL. 6 NO. 4, 1987 Jayapragra Reddy The Spirit of Two The old woman pounded the spices in depression. She wished Radha would a wooden mortar. She sat on a grass go away and leave her to her mat in the sartorial position adopted thoughts. But Radha lingered. by generations of women before her. 'There is trouble,' Radha informed It was cool under the mango tree and her. 'Now she wants to go to work. the gentle susurration of the breeze Worlds He said she cannot go to work. She among the leaves was like the voice of was very angry.' God murmuring His comfort. Out there was open resentment. It was The old woman sighed but refrain­ here it was quiet and she could think time, they maintained, that she took ed from comment. her thoughts in peace as she prepared an interest in the family and did her She did not ask how she came by the mangoes for pickling. But today share of the housework. She couldn't such knowledge. In the rather her thoughts were not very pleasant. deny the truth of it. Sharda was cramped living conditions of the They were troubled and she was forc­ headstrong and wilful. By bringing in council house, nothing was very ed to acknowledge the disturbing fact her own ideas and an alien lifestyle, private. Quarrels became public and that there was rebellion in her she had upset the smooth running of one's tears, unless shed quietly, were household. Ever since Veeran, her her home. In her day, oh her day, heard by all. Radha went on, giving youngest son, had married, there was none of this would have been permit­ her all the details, but the old woman dissension in her home. He hadn't ted, she lamented inwardly. stopped her with a quelling gesture. heeded her advice and had obstinately Radha, her eldest daughter-in-law, She rose and went indoors. followed his own desires. So now he came out to her. 'You like some tea, Veeran stood at the window look­ reaped the consequences. A shadow Ma?' she asked, speaking in Tamil. ing out vacantly. Sundays were usual­ hung over her normally peaceful The old woman nodded and as she ly so peaceful, the old woman household. Nothing pleased her new watched her go back in again, she thought as she studied him. Sundays daughter-in-law. Nothing was good thought how good and obedient a were meant for outings attending enough for her. She complained that daughter-in-law she had been. She weddings and functions and for visits the semi-detached house in the Indian always wore a sari and her hair was to relatives. Now Sundays were torn township was too cramped and that still long and worn in a simple plait. by strife and tension. there was not much diversion in the No task was too much for her. Not 'What is wrong, my son?' she asked district. Her discontent and aloofness when it came to doing things for her. softly. He did not turn around. She did not invite intimacy and she re­ Radha returned with an enamel sensed his humiliation and hurt. mained isolated. She kept to herself, mug full of tea, which frothed like 'She wants to work,' he said reluc­ joining the family only when beer. Just the way she liked it, she tantly. necessary. The other daughters-in- thought, sipping it slowly. The hot 'Then let her work, my son,' she law were tolerant at first but now fragrant brew dispelled some of her said. STAFFRIDER, VOL. 6 NO. 4, 1987 He turned and regarded her with reaction was one of grief. Then she disbelief. 'You want her to work!' he The car was small and felt anger. Anger because he was exclaimed. sleek. The day she brought it allowing it to happen.
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