Zenzele and the Vicious Dog (ePub)

My name is Bantu Thandwasithi Mniki. I was born on the 20th December 1972 in the rural town of Idutywa, in the Province of the Eastern Cape, South Africa. My father David Mzwelitye Mniki was born in the location of eBolotwa about 25 kilometers from the small town of Idutywa. My mother was born Iris Nomthinjana Matsiliza from the location of Fort Malan in Gatyana or Willowvale, also about 25 kilometers from Idutywa.

I fell in love with stories way back when I would listen to African stories told around an evening fire in eBolotwa. These African stories were told by elders, brothers and cousins. They were truly fascinating and inspirational to me in those early years. These stories would also be told and re-told among children, during the evening as we went to bed. There was no television, and hardly any radio, stories were the only entertainment, but it was always educational entertainment in a manner that could never be found in a classroom. These African stories found their way into the classroom too, through books written by African authors. But funny enough the same sort of stories we heard in the dark, firelight recesses of our our straw mat beds, were the same sort of stories we read in school, in books written in Europe. Stories in the same style as the world famous Three Little Pigs which characterized animals were the kind of stories we were used to at home. They were so fascinating because they inspired thought, they stimulated the young mind to find parallels between stories and real life.

It is this legacy of the African story, which in effect is the human story that inspired me to write this book. As we transform to a modern society as Africans, but also as we transform into a global community, it is imperative that we keep the art of stories alive. We must keep the stories that inspired us, but we must also come up with new stories. We must come up with stories which, whilst allowing the human mind to sore to even greater heights, will keep the

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