Teardrops: A Collection of Short Stories by Babalwa Nqoro Eastern Cape teacher Babalwa Nqoro has put together this dramatic collection of short stories highlighting the more unpleasant and tragic aspects of life in the rural areas of the Province.

The stories capture the effects of corruption, crime, unemployment and pure human misery, on the one hand, and the heroic efforts of the people to live normal lives in the face of the onslaught, on the other.