Mhlophe herself, in her foward to the Love Child collection of writings, refers to these writings as "this journey of my life's experiences." This aptly captures the major theme of these works. The two works under discussion, 'Transforming Moments' and 'Love Child', both reflect back onto Mhlophe's life's experiences. However each of her stories reflect back in a different way. Transforming moments is a direct recollection and narrative of her experiences at age seventeen in standard nine at boarding school in Mt Frere in the Eastern Cape. Love Child, on the other hand, is written as an imaginative, fictional short story with an underlying moral. Mhlophe, in her foward, says that she is a love child herself, having a Xhosa mother and a Zulu father. Therefore she wrote Love child in reaction to the "Zulu-Xhosa War" in South Africa in the early 90's. the magic drum in the...