Preface
Story: an Introduction
Part One Oral Past
Myths,
fables, legends, tales/stories suggesting ancient or olden times
The Sun is Thrown into the Sky
The Girl who Made Stars
The Young Man who was Carried off by a Lion
Nkulunkulu, the One who Came First
How Death Entered the World
Maqinase, the Wily One
The Bird that Made Milk
The Child with a Moon on his Chest
The Man who Threw away his Bread
Part Two Colonial to Modern
1800s - 1970s
//Kabbo ‘A
Story is like the Wind'
Pulvermacher Prayer
of Titus Tokaan
H.W. Nevinson Vae Victis
Eugène N. Marais The
Grey Pipit
Sarah Gertrude
Millin Up from Gilgal
Pauline Smith The Sisters
R.R.R. Dhlomo The Death of Masaba
Herman Charles
Bosman Funeral
Earth
C. Louis
Leipoldt The Tree
H.I.E.
Dhlomo The
Barren Woman
Es'kia
Mphahlele Down the Quiet Street
Casey
Motsisi Kid
Playboy
Can Themba Crepuscule
Alex La Guma A Matter of Taste
Abraham H. de Vries The Girl with the Bra-Pistol
Jan Rabie Maiden Outing to
Rondebosch
Chris Barnard Bush
Karel Schoeman Seed in a New Earth
Nadine
Gordimer The Credibility Gap
Part Three Stories of the 1970s and 1980s
Hennie
Aucamp The
Coat without an End
Ken Barris The
Questioning
Ahmed Essop Hajji
Musa and the Hindu Fire-Walker
Nadine Gordimer The
Termitary
P.J.
Haasbroek Departure
Bessie Head The
Wind and a Boy
Christopher
Hope The
Fall of the British Empire
Maud
Motanyane Two Minutes
P.T. Mtuze The
Way to Madam
Njabulo S.
Ndebele Death
of a Son
Marguerite Poland The
Wood-ash Stars
Jayapraga
Reddy The
Spirit of Two Worlds
Peter
Wilhelm Jazz
Part Four Stories of the 1990s
Abraham H. De Vries Ruins
Nadine Gordimer Once upon a Time
Stephen Gray The Building Site
Liz Gunner Cattle Passing
Maureen Isaacson I Could Have Loved Gold
Ashraf Jamal The Beggar-Guest
Lekotse's Testimony at the TRC
(retold by Antjie Krog)
The Sheep-herder's Tale
Sindiwe Magona The
Sacrificial Lamb
John Matshikiza Of Renaissance and Rhino
Stew
The Purple Man in
my Bantustan
Rosemary H. Moeketsi Guilty as Charged
Sheila Roberts Carlotta's Vinyl Skin
Riana Scheepers Book
Ivan Vladislavić The
WHITES ONLY Bench
Marlene van Niekerk Labour
Eben Venter Tinktinkie
Zoë Wicomb Another
Story
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