Of A Generation
Intro : Brenda
Brenda and her oldest sister-in-law are sitting in the veranda while she waits for the dough to rise. “Yazi uMthandeki can learn a lot from your daughter, look how it shines! Not a single mark,” she points admiring the stoep. Her mother walks out the house, sees them on the stoep and asks Brenda if she’ll ever come back to church. Not sure what to say, Brenda lowers her eyes. Her sister-in-law shifts in her chair adjusting herself so that her mother-in-law can see that she’s dressed and waiting for her husband and children. It’s twenty minutes before the time deacon Samson usually pick up her mother for church. So Brenda offers her a chair and goes back into the house to fetch another for herself. She puts the whole of her body weight on the balls of her feet when she walks. If you didn’t know better, you’d think that she’s being propelled forward by the wind.
Noma the writer 