Tomorrow Is Another Day

Baba’s job’s been gone for years now.

“No coal,” he says.

After more than thirty years, Darwin Mine has no coal, they say.

But Darwin Mine has coal. The whole nation is running off to Bocha, Zimbabwe finally has diamonds and so, who needs coal? You scavenge for the…

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Hard Medicine

The cock crow was like thunder, echoing through my ears until my eyes could not shut.

My day had begun. I felt sick again as my body heated up, from the head down to my toes. It was time to get up. There was no mealie meal for…

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