Mafeking Road

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Henry-style socko punchlines, for their atmosphere, for the history, read them simply because they’re wonderful, entertaining, and humane stories where to weep is to laugh, read them because they make a mostly forgotten world live, but read them. This is a collection of short stories in English told by a narrator set during, and between the first and second Anglo-Boer Wars between the Afrikaners and the British. Don't be put off by the biographical fact that he was sentenced to death at age 22 for shooting his step-brother, his death sentence being commuted on appeal, followed by ten years hard labour in a South African prison in the 1920s and 1930s, during which he wrote his wonderful prison memoir Cold Stone Jug.

These slyly simple stories of the unforgiving South African Transvaal reveal a little-described (and rarely romanticized) world of Afrikaner life in the late 19th Century.A humorous and touching must read for all South Africans and an educational experience for all readers.

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