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An enormous man sitting opposite the narrator, whose initial passivity represents the suppressed power of the black working class.

He describes the setting with sharp, vivid detail. Dube Train Short Story By Can Themba

The train carriage becomes a pressure cooker. The passengers are terrified, the police are complicit or absent, and the tsotsis rule through fear. An enormous man sitting opposite the narrator, whose

The Dube Train (named after the Dube station in Soweto, specifically the area named for John Langalibalele Dube, the first ANC president) was the literal and metaphorical artery of this world. Every morning, thousands of Black commuters would cram into these "copper-topped" carriages, hurtling from the dusty townships of Soweto into the white city centers of Johannesburg, only to reverse the journey at night. the police are complicit or absent