Die Bidsprinkaan, die Meisie en die Blomme van Namakwaland (Afrikaans)
ISBN-10: 1868570223
by Thomas A Nevin and illustrated by Marjorie van Heerden
Also translated in other SA official languages
The Mantis, the Girl and the Flowers of Namakwaland
(English translation)
Umntanezulu, Intombazana Neentyatyambo
(Xhosa translation)
Ifithwalambiza Intombazana Nezimbali Zasenamaqualand
(Zulu translation)
Serwalankgwana, Ngwananyana le Dipalesa tsa Namaqualand
(Sesotho transl.)
Garamond Publishers (South Africa) [1995]

The story based on a Nama Legend about !Urisib that was very beutiful and very vain. She became jealous when the
Namakwaland daisies flowered and everyone looked at the flowers and not at her. This angried the Mantis god and he taught her a lesson.
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