Dube Train Short Story By Can Themba -

The Heavy Silence of "The Dube Train": Life Under Apartheid Can Themba’s " The Dube Train

The train carriage becomes a pressure cooker. The passengers are terrified, the police are complicit or absent, and the tsotsis rule through fear. Dube Train Short Story By Can Themba

The Narrator:

He feels "rotten" and depressed, viewing the crowd as "sour-smelling humanity". The Heavy Silence of "The Dube Train": Life

(gangster) begins to harass and assault a young woman in the crowded carriage. The Reaction: the police are complicit or absent