SEKAPE REVEALS SOME PECULIAR VIEWS SHE HAD TO DECIDE. She could tell Mma Sebina first that she had found her brother, or she could speak to the brother, to this Mr. Sekape, and reveal to him that he had a sister. The two possibilities raised quite distinct issues. Mma Sebina had asked her to find...
Matekoni. She knew that she had exceeded her authority by promoting Mma Makutsi to be Assistant Manager of the garage—she would have resented it greatly if he had attempted to promote her own staff—and she realised that she would just have to tell him exactly what had happened. He was a kind man,...
Their progress was rapid; indeed Mma Makutsi had to revise her estimates of how long it would take them to become proficient typists and was able to announce to them that the course would last five weeks, rather than six. “You will get the same diploma,” she announced, making a mental note to do ...
Matekoni contemplated the view from his office at Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. There were two windows, one of which looked directly into the workshop, where his two young apprentices were busy raising a car on a jack. They were doing it the wrong way, he noticed, in spite of his constant reminder...
As a boy, he had been taken to the dentist every year, but treatment had rarely been necessary and the dentist had dismissed him.‘Only come if you have toothache,’ he said to von Igelfeld. ‘These teeth of yours will last you your life.’Von Igelfeld followed this questionable advice, and never tho...