A passion for telling stories has always been with Lindiwe Nkutha from Soweto, in fact as a kid, she even assumed that everyone who went to work was going to tell a story.
Her sweet mother always returned from work with stories about her colleagues, Nkutha giggled and said, “With my mom’s amazing stories about her colleagues like Constance, and Mrs. Van, I naturally thought work is where people go to tell stories and when they find the time to work, they would work.
Interestingly, when her time to choose a career, she qualified and worked as an accountant. However, she didn’t neglect her first love. Her poems and short stories have appeared in several journals and bodies of work like Chimurenga and Itch.
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Now she has her debut collection of short stories called 69 Jerusalem Street published by Modjaji Books. In the book, Nkutha takes her readers through the lives of the people in the township; like the wayward neighbour some remember seeing as a child until the day they vanished.
Nkutha said that she wrote the book because she wanted to reflect the spectacular that she saw in the mundane everyday lives of township people. She said, “This book is about the people whose lives are here in Soweto, people who deal with the punches as they hit them.
Not the people who are on their way to board a plane to London.” Born in Soweto, she’s had to live in various places like Dube, Phiri, and Protea North.
“The people from Dube would remember me from when I was a little girl, some of them might recognise themselves in the book.” Said Nkuna. The book launched last month and people can get it from book stores.
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