Native Boy: Confessions of a Maplazini in the City
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- Synopsis
- ‘When we moved from the farm, my mother was concerned about my survival. How would her youngest child survive township life; how would he transform from a maplazini to an urban township boy?Thabo Abram Molefe was just six years old when he and his family left their tenancy on a Boschfontein farm. Their destination: a vacant stand in the vibrant, multi-ethnic, rambling Ratanda township just south of Heidelberg, Transvaal – the birthplace of Eugene Terre’Blanche’s AWB.To his new neighbours, Molefe is – and always will be – a ‘maplazini’, Sesotho for ‘sumb country bumpkin’. It is a nickname he works to overcome as he journeys towards adulthood and further education, far beyond the apartheid regime’s agenda to forever limit the black man to a life of hardship.Funny, moving, heartbreaking and heartwarming: Native Boy is an illuminating memoir of a young black man’s search for identity, set against the backdrop of a country in the throes of political transition.
- Copyright:
- 2021
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781776190256
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781776190249
- Publisher:
- Jonathan Ball Publishers
- Date of Addition:
- 03/31/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Text, Thabo A. Molefe
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.