Nadine Gordimer`s “The Ultimate Safari” occupies a very special place in her literary canvas, for she chose it as a work “representing some of the best” of her “lifetime work as storyteller.” What Stephen Clingman says of Gordimer`s work in general can apply to “The Ultimate Safari”: “the realist perspective-and the implications for characterization and typification that it entails-have, for Gordimer, grown directly out of the situation in which and of which she writes.” The story is specifically set along the border between South Africa and Mozambique. This paper first identifies the historical background and notes its South African connection: “bandits” raiding the villagers in the story are Renamo (Resistencia Nacional Mocambicana) backed by the South African government. It is worth noting that Gordimer was a very active supporter of the banned African National Congress. The story is then not without its relevance to Gordimer`s preoccupation: apartheid, though it is never specified. The paper moves on to discuss how the story is told and what it implies and connotes. The story is narrated by a black first-person narrator who happens to be a child. Special focus will be given to Gordimer`s claim that she has “the right” to speak of/for the Other. Ultimately the paper upholds what Toni Morrison says of Gordimer`s black characters: “Nadine Gordimer writes about black people with such astounding sensibilities and sensitivity-not patronizing, not romantic, just real.”