White Wahala

The man sat alone in the wooden kiosk. He was impeccably dressed as always in neat dark trousers and a loose matching jacket. Broad patterned stripes flowed in obedient lines down his crisply starched shirt. A pair of heavy silver cufflinks on his wrists glinted evilly in the lamplight. They looked like the eyes of a large rodent crouched among the papers on the desk. And when he bent his large head to study the neat handwritten entries in his ledger, the tip of his tie hovered inches above the page. His name was Cash Tshabalala and he was a moneylender.' - From White Wahala
'Wahala' is a Nigerian slang word that means 'trouble' and White Wahala is a story about a man who finds himself unable to cope with the rapidly changing world around him. That man is a notoriously brutal township money lender who goes by the name Cash Tshabalala. Through a twist of fate, Cash lends money to the son of a fabulously rich white South African family.
When the young man, a closet drug dealer, forgets to keep up his side of the transaction, Cash's violent reaction is the catalyst for a descent into chaos, both for him and for the Nicholson family. The matriarch, Agatha Nicholson, is bewildered by the populist events Cash brings in his wake.
Humorous, tender, graphic and insightful, the story strides across the traditional dividing lines of race, class, sex and age to take an irreverent and hard-hitting look at South African society