Indlela eNtsha

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Indlela eNtsha
(The New Road)
Illustrated by Nicodemus Silingo
Written by Fiske Serah Nyirongo
Designed by Murray Hunter
Edited by Margot Bertelsmann
Translated by Sihle Siko
with the help of the Book Dash participants in Johannesburg on 26 October 2019.
ISBN: 978-1-77623-099-0
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Nicodemus Silingo  Fiske Serah Nyirongo  Murray Hunter

UChapansi nomhlobo wakhe wenene uLuano bayakuthanda ukuqokelela izintlwa.

Bayakuthanda ukudlala  kwindlela endala yomhlaba …

… nokuba uMama angathi  shu-shu kuba amatye  alimaza iinyawo zakhe.

Ngenye imini, kufika iimoto  ezinkulu.

UMama uzibiza ngokuba  ngooGanda-ganda.

Zogquma indlela ngento  emnyama.
UMama uyibiza ngokuba yitha.

Indlela igudile ngoku.

Ngathi kukuhamba kumatrasi!

Kodwa uChapansi noLuano baya endleleni ukuyobamba izintlwa …

… babamba ezintathu kuphela.

UChapansi uyathanda ukudlala upuca noLuano.

Kodwa akasekho amatye  okudlala endleleni.

UChapansi ukhathazekile.

Kungathini ukuba izintlwa  azisakwazi ukuphefumla?

UChapansi  ukhaba indlela.

UChapansi uya kuMama.

‘Musa ukoyika mntwana wam, izintlwa ziya kusoloko zifumana indlela yokuphuma,’ utsho.

Ngenye imini eyayisina, uLuano uza ebaleka kulo Chapansi.

‘Izintlwa zibuyile!’

Izintlwa zibuyile! Ziyoyisile indlela!

UMama ebenyanisile ekugqibeleni!