The book “Writing from south Africa” ventures many different pieces of writing during the brutal period of Apartheid in South Africa. Two stories, “The Dignity of Begging”(William Bloke Modisane) and “The Prisoner Wore Glasses”(Bessie Head), are quite alike but then again quite different in numerous ways.
Williams’s short story was written in the year 1951, whilst Bessie writes her story in the year 1986. The setting of both the stories are in South Africa, however if looked at carefully you can note that The Dignity of Begging takes place on the streets of Johannesburg whilst the