On Running & Other Stories

Makhosazana Xaba, Running & Other Stories - To write a farewell missive to a daughter you barely know borders on the duplicitous. So I will stick to the bones, a frame and form for you to hold me in should events in your life ever conspire to draw you close to such proclivity. - - I wanted to name you Fakazile.* Your mother would not hear of it, "for your own good". She said her Jewish family would have difficulty pronouncing that name. Go and find what it means and honour it. That is, if you ever wish to come...