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This is a direct translation for the first chapter of Die Kind by Jan van Tonder. It gives you a guide on what is happening in Chapter 1 in the book. ***For Learner Use Only***









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HOOFSTUK 1
Wanneer Vanaf ’n jaar voor die kind se geboorte tot ’n jaar daarna
Waar Msinga; Amazolo se huis
Amazolo probeer ontslae raak van haar ongebore kind.
Die kind word gebore.
Amazolo ignoreer die kind.
Wat gebeur
Zuziwe neem die kind na Thandi toe.
Zuziwe waarsku Amazolo sy gaan gestraf word omdat sy haar kind verwerp.
Thandi bring die kind na ’n jaar terug na Amazolo toe.


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Sy het die laaste maande van haar tyd gevra dat die kind She asked in the last months of her time that the child
in haar moet doodgaan, en sy saam met hom. Sy het within her should die, and she along with him. She
met uNkulunkulu self gepraat, dié Een wat die mense spoke with uNkulunkulu himself, the One who made
uit riete gemaak het, en haar nie aan die voorvaders se people from reeds, and she did not bother about the
wette gesteur nie. Hulle kon maar vir haar kwaad word laws of the ancestors. They could get angry with her –
– dit was wat sy wou hê. that's what she wanted.

Elke ding wat sy geweet het sy nie mag doen nie, hét sy Everything she knew she shouldn't do, she did: ate
gedoen: tarentaal geëet, en haas, en gestaan terwyl sy guineafowl and hare, stood while eating, and never
eet, en nooit ‘n takkie van die spoorplant umkhondo carried a twig of the spoorplant umkhondo with her to
met haar saamgedra om die kind teen die bose spore protect the child from the evil spirits he might have
waaroor sy dalk geloop het, te beskerm nie. ‘n Paar encountered. A few times she did the worst thing,
maal het sy die ergste gedoen, ‘n ding wat die ander something that made the other women afraid and
vrouens, toe hulle daarvan hoor, bang en kwaad angry when they heard about it: she went out of her
gemaak het: sy het uit haar pad gegaan om die vleis van way to get the meat of a bok that had died of lameness.
‘n bokooi wat lamtyd gevrek het, in die hande te kry. She ate as much of it as she could.
Daarvan het sy geëet soveel sy kon.
a plant that can protect an unborn child against an illness. This illness is
supposingly caused when the mother comes across the tracks of a person or an
animal with a bad omen.

Mlenzana het nie teruggekom nie. Mlenzana did not come back.

Sy het aanhou werk, tot op die laaste dag, asof sy nie She kept on working, until the last day, as if she wasn't
die kind gedra het nie, en gemaak of sy nie die ou carrying the child, and pretended not to hear the old
vrouens hoor kla nie. Hulle het almal oor haar gepraat, women complain. Everyone talked about her, the whole
die hele Msinga vol, die mense van die Mabaso-stam Msinga, the people of the Mabaso clan from Tugela
van Tugela Ferry en dié van die Bomvini en Thenjini en Ferry, and those of the Bomvini, Thenjini, and the Zondi
die Zondi verder weg. “Ek sien jou,” het sy gegroet further away. "I see you," she greeted when she
wanneer sy iemand raakloop, maar niemand het encountered someone, but no one answered. They
geantwoord nie. Hulle het haar nie gesien nie. Almal het didn't see her. Everyone knew she didn't want the child.
geweet dat sy die kind nie wou hê nie.

Selfs die veewagters wou nie vir haar die tarentaal bring Even the herders didn't want to bring her the
wat sy hulle gevra het nie. Hulle het geweet dat dit guineafowl she had asked them for. They knew it was
verkeerd was, die ding wrong, the thing
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