Thomas's Letter Home

He left at sixteen. He told himself he was coming back.Thomas Gqiba boards a bus from the mountains of Matatiele and steps into the hungry machinery of Johannesburg — the hostels, the mines, the criminal networks that recruit ordinary men one small yes at a time. By twenty-one he has done something unforgivable. By twenty-eight, he has survived prison, found an unlikely love in a North West townsh...