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Eggs to lay, chickens to hatch - A memoir (Paperback)
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Eggs to lay, chickens to hatch - A memoir (Paperback)
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List price R320
Loot Price R250
Discovery Miles 2 500
You Save R70 (22%)
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Agnes, the Van Wyks’ Zulu housekeeper, had a special friendship
with young Chris in the late sixties to early seventies. He would
defend her whenever she came to work with a hangover on a Monday
morning and made a mess of the cleaning. In turn, Agnes never told
on Chris when he played truant from school. As the years passed,
the two grew closer, swopping stories about coloureds and Zulus,
life in Riverlea and Soweto, pass laws, politics and falling in
love. She taught him to count in Zulu and he promised to teach her
to read in English. Whenever the clock ran against her, Agnes would
stop almost in mid-sentence, grab a broom or cloth, and declare: ‘I
have to rush. I have eggs to lay, chickens to hatch.’ What an odd,
ungrammatical thing to say, Chris often mused. But many years
later, he played a CD by Louis Jordan, a 1940s American jazz
singer, and it all became clear. Eggs to lay, chickens to hatch
(forthcoming end April 2010) is Chris van Wyk’s second childhood
memoir about growing up in Riverlea and his colourful interactions
with the men and women who lived the African proverb that ‘it takes
a village to raise a child’. But mostly it is the story of a
wonderful friendship between a young coloured boy and a Zulu.
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