Dube Train Short Story By Can Themba -

The carriage exhaled. But it wasn't a sigh of relief; it was a sigh of exhaustion. The woman didn't thank her rescuer. The big man didn't look for praise. He simply sat back down, his face a mask of stone.

To understand the story, readers must understand the era in which it was written. Can Themba was a prominent journalist and writer during the 1950s. He belonged to the "Drum Generation," a group of black writers who documented urban black culture under apartheid. Dube Train Short Story By Can Themba