Cast Iron Can't Be Welded

About this title

PG du Plessis’ story is set in rural South Africa during the seventies. A farmer buys a broken little cast iron stove to restore and transports it home in his truck. Along the way he picks up a schoolboy hitchhiking home for the weekend. In conversation the farmer learns from the boy how cast iron should be welded. Only after dropping the boy off, does the farmer realise how much he has really learned from him.