2004 paperback with 262 pages in good condition.

This book, based on stories derived from the oral tradition of the Xhosa-speaking peoples, particularly from the Tsolo and Qumbu districts in the former Transkei, has not been published in South Africa before.

ANC MP Pallo Jordan says that when his father, Archibald Campbell Jordan, was a lecturer in African languages at the University of Cape Town he would visit the older people in the townships to add to his collection of tales. One of his favourite haunts was a house in Stone Street in the then District Six. A number of men from the Tsolo and Qumbu districts, where he had spent his childhood, lived in the house. Every Thursday a woman and Qumbu, who worked in town, visited the house in Stone Street. She had an extensive repertoire of tales and was renowned as a great narrator. A C Jordan wrote them down and translated them into English and in this way some of the oral tradition of the Tsolo and Qumbu districts has been preserved.