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SHORT SUMMARY
MEMORISE THE SHORT SUMMARY AND THEN – READ THE DETAILED
SUMMARY WRITTEN IN MY OWN HANDWRITING IN THE STUDY
GUIDE.
WHEN RAIN CLOUDS GATHER
Who is telling the story?
Third person narrator.
When?
Bessie Head wrote the book.
White mom and black father.
Adopted
Primary school teacher
Worked for DRUM
1964 Left SA for Botswana
Famous writer
1979 Botswana Citizenship
CHAPTER 1
Makhaya, a Zulu, hide in Baralong village.
Cross the border when dark.
Slept over at a woman and a year old girl.
Stopped a truck.
Dropped him at railway crossing.
, 2
Report at police – George Appleby-Smith
Do you like Kwame Nkrumah?
Dinorego
Sekoto discovered that Matenge wants to assassinate him.
Sekoto made younger brother Matenge the sub chief and
administrator of Golema Mmidi.
Gilbert Balfour – Agricultural development – England.
Sekoto worred because Gilbert wants to uplift the poor.
Sekoto uses the poor as slaves!
Put Gilbert under Matenge in Golema Mmidi to sort each other out.
Pelotona – Permit man – Worked for Matenge.
Gilbert – weight beast on a scale for a fair price.
Pelotona works for gilbert.
Matenge banished Pelotona.
Pelotona went to see Sekoto.
White woman from England says… Pelotona stays right here. We pay
his salary.
Mma-Millipede – Dinorego’s friend.
Dinorego stays with his youngest child – Maria.
Gilbert needed Makhaya.
Makhaya worked for a newspaper in Jhb.
No soft grass – Just carrot-seed grass.
SHORT SUMMARY
MEMORISE THE SHORT SUMMARY AND THEN – READ THE DETAILED
SUMMARY WRITTEN IN MY OWN HANDWRITING IN THE STUDY
GUIDE.
WHEN RAIN CLOUDS GATHER
Who is telling the story?
Third person narrator.
When?
Bessie Head wrote the book.
White mom and black father.
Adopted
Primary school teacher
Worked for DRUM
1964 Left SA for Botswana
Famous writer
1979 Botswana Citizenship
CHAPTER 1
Makhaya, a Zulu, hide in Baralong village.
Cross the border when dark.
Slept over at a woman and a year old girl.
Stopped a truck.
Dropped him at railway crossing.
, 2
Report at police – George Appleby-Smith
Do you like Kwame Nkrumah?
Dinorego
Sekoto discovered that Matenge wants to assassinate him.
Sekoto made younger brother Matenge the sub chief and
administrator of Golema Mmidi.
Gilbert Balfour – Agricultural development – England.
Sekoto worred because Gilbert wants to uplift the poor.
Sekoto uses the poor as slaves!
Put Gilbert under Matenge in Golema Mmidi to sort each other out.
Pelotona – Permit man – Worked for Matenge.
Gilbert – weight beast on a scale for a fair price.
Pelotona works for gilbert.
Matenge banished Pelotona.
Pelotona went to see Sekoto.
White woman from England says… Pelotona stays right here. We pay
his salary.
Mma-Millipede – Dinorego’s friend.
Dinorego stays with his youngest child – Maria.
Gilbert needed Makhaya.
Makhaya worked for a newspaper in Jhb.
No soft grass – Just carrot-seed grass.
