Moffie by Andre Carl van der Merwe

Author:Andre Carl van der Merwe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Europa
Published: 2011-08-01T16:00:00+00:00

I lie on my back looking up at the ceiling. Here I am, in a house in Johannesburg with a friend, and my old life knows nothing of me. They never really knew anything about me, did they? Now they don’t even know where I am. Maybe it’s a good thing, I think, so that if I don’t return from the border it will help them that they’ve let go before.

‘Nick?’

‘OK. I have an uncle who lives in Namibia. Once upon a time, I had an uncle who lived . . .’ I laugh and so does Mal. ‘My moth­er’s brother, stunning farm, shit, Mal, wild and unspoiled. Well, one day my uncle and I drive out with this black guy on the back. Mal?’

‘Yes, I’m listening.’

‘He let me drive; I loved it, this old Landy. You know, the one from the sixties, the one with the lights in the grill, not like the garries we use in the army. They have a face, with little cheeks, and he would remove the grill and use it as a braai grid when we did meat over the fire. So clever, those old ones . . . with the dashboard in the middle, all metal, no plastic.’

I lower my voice. Next to me my friend’s breathing has be­come deep and rhythmic.

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