They rig Sharisha with dynamite. [...] the emergency worker… - Zakes Mda

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They rig Sharisha with dynamite. [...] the emergency workers place more than five hundred kilograms of dynamite in all the strategie places, especially close to Sharisha's head.
Like a high priest in a ritual sacrifice a man stands over a contraption that is connected to the whale with a long red cable. With all due solemnity he triggers the explosives. Sharisha goes up in a gigantic baU of smoke and flame. [...] [The Whale Caller] is looking intently at the red, yellow and white flames as Sharisha rises in the sky. It is like Guy Fawkes fireworks

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Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni "Zakes" Mda (born 1948) is a South African novelist, poet and playwright.

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Hymns flow into one another in unplanned but pleasant segues.

Yet there is nothing that rises, phoenix-like, out of the ashes. All the Whale Caller can do at the scene of the explosion is sit "silent and still as blubber rains on him. Until he is completely larded with it"

The villagers will actually lose more than they will gain from the few jobs that will be created. Very little of the money that is made here will circulate in the village.

They rig Sharisha with dynamite. [...] the emergency workers place more than five hundred kilograms of dynamite in all the strategie places, especial… - Zakes Mda

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