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Book Journey to Jo Burg

    Book Details:
  • Author : Beverley Naidoo
  • Publisher : HarperCollins Children's Modern Classics
  • Release : 2022-03-17
  • ISBN : 9780008523305
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book Journey to Jo Burg written by Beverley Naidoo and published by HarperCollins Children's Modern Classics. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful HarperCollins Children's Modern Classics edition is perfect for every bookshelf.

Book Journey to Jo burg

Download or read book Journey to Jo burg written by Beverley Naidoo and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Has no equal. Evocative and haunting.” (School Library Journal starred review) The bestselling classic set in South Africa during the apartheid era, in which two siblings must face the dangers of their divided country. Mma lives and works in Johannesburg, far from the village thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother, Tiro, call home. When their baby sister suddenly becomes very sick, Naledi and Tiro know that they need to bring their mother back in order to save their sister’s life. Bravely, secretly, they set off on the long journey to the big city to find Mma. It isn’t until they finally reach Jo’burg that they see up close what life is like for black citizens across South Africa—and begin to really question the unfair and dangerous laws of apartheid. A classic look at prejudice and racism in apartheid South Africa, this short and compelling novel is perfect for independent reading projects and classroom sharing.

Book Wake Up  This Is Joburg

Download or read book Wake Up This Is Joburg written by Tanya Zack and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-19 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A single image taken from a high-rise building in inner-city Johannesburg uncovers layers of history—from its premise and promise of gold to its current improvisations. It reveals the city as carcass and as crucible, where informal agents and processes spearhead its rapid reshaping and transformation. In Wake Up, This Is Joburg, writer Tanya Zack and photographer Mark Lewis offer a stunning portrait of Johannesburg and personal stories of some of the city’s ordinary, odd, and outrageous residents. Their photos and essays take readers into meat markets where butchers chop cow heads; the eclectic home of an outsider artist that features turrets and full of manikins; long-abandoned gold pits beneath the city, where people continue to mine informally; and lively markets, taxi depots, and residential high-rises. Sharing people’s private and work lives and the extraordinary spaces of the metropolis, Zack and Lewis show that Johannesburg’s urban transformation occurs not in a series of dramatic, wide-scale changes but in the everyday lives, actions, and dreams of individuals.

Book The Great Tug of War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Beverley Naidoo
  • Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Bks
  • Release : 2006-06-09
  • ISBN : 9781845070557
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book The Great Tug of War written by Beverley Naidoo and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Bks. This book was released on 2006-06-09 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mmutla the hare is cunning. When you have Ntsu the eagle soaring high in the sky looking for her supper, and Tswhene the baboon vowing to throw you off a cliff, you need all the tricks you can think of. When Mmutla the hare tricks Tlou the elephant and Kubu the hippo into having an epic tug of war, the whole savanna is soon laughing at their foolishness. However small animals should not make fun of big animals and King Lion, together with Tswhene the baboon and wise old Khudu the tortoise set out to teach Mmutla a lesson - but the clever hare is always one step ahead.

Book Anxious Joburg

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nicky Falkof
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2020-10-01
  • ISBN : 1776146301
  • Pages : 293 pages

Download or read book Anxious Joburg written by Nicky Falkof and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary account of the life of Johannesburg, South Africa's "global south city" Anxious Joburg focuses on Johannesburg, the largest and wealthiest city in South Africa, as a case study for the contemporary global South city. Global South cities are often characterised as sites of contradiction and difference that produce a range of feelings around anxiety. This is often imagined in terms of the global North’s anxieties about the South: migration, crime, terrorism, disease and environmental crisis. Anxious Joburg invites readers to consider an intimate perspective of living inside such a city. How does it feel to live in the metropolis of Johannesburg: what are the conditions, intersections, affects and experiences that mark the contemporary urban? Scholars, visual artists and storytellers, all look at unexamined aspects of Johannesburg life. From peripheral settlements to the inner city to the affluent northern suburbs, from precarious migrants and domestic workers to upwardly mobile young women and fearful elites, Anxious Joburg presents an absorbing engagement with this frustrating, dangerous, seductive city. It offers a rigorous, critical approach to Johannesburg revealing the way in which anxiety is a vital structuring principle of contemporary life. The approach is strongly interdisciplinary, with contributions from media studies, anthropology, religious studies, urban geography, migration studies and psychology. It will appeal to students and teachers, as well as to academic researchers concerned with Johannesburg, South Africa, cities and the global South. The mix of approaches will also draw a non-academic audience.

Book The Other Side of Truth

Download or read book The Other Side of Truth written by Beverley Naidoo and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will the truth harm them -- or save them? When Nigeria's corrupt military government kills their mother, twelve-year-old Sade and her brother Femi think their lives are over. Out of fear for their safety, their father, an outspoken journalist, decides to smuggle the children out of Nigeria and into London, where their uncle lives. But when they get to the cold and massive city, they find themselves lost and alone, with no one to trust and no idea when -- or if -- they will ever see their father again. The Other Side of Truth is a gripping adventure story about courage, family, and the power of truth.

Book Web of Lies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Beverley Naidoo
  • Publisher : Penguin UK
  • Release : 2004-09-02
  • ISBN : 0141925760
  • Pages : 201 pages

Download or read book Web of Lies written by Beverley Naidoo and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-09-02 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two years after their flight from Nigeria, 14-yr-old Sade, her younger brother Femi and her father are living in a council flat in London, waiting for their claim for asylum to be approved. Sade is upset when Femi is drawn into a violent possibly drug-dealing gang, and even more upset when their father doesn't seem to notice. He's too taken up with his new friend Mrs Wallace, a refugee from Sierra Leone. But when Femi is arrested for murder, and the gang set fire to their flat, the family has to pull together to get through this most difficult time.

Book Lost and Found in Johannesburg

Download or read book Lost and Found in Johannesburg written by Mark Gevisser and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a boy growing up in 1970s Johannesburg Mark Gevisser would play 'Dispatcher', a game that involved sitting in his father's parked car (or in the study) and sending imaginary couriers on routes across the city, mapped out from Holmden's Register of Johannesburg. As the imaginary fleet made its way across the troubled city and its tightly bound geographies, so too did the young dispatcher begin to figure out his own place in the world. At the centre of Lost and Found in Johannesburg is the account of a young boy who is obsessed with maps and books, and other boys. Mark Gevisser's account of growing up as the gay son of Jewish immigrants, in a society deeply affected - on a daily basis - by apartheid and its legacy, provides a uniquely layered understanding of place and history. It explores a young man's maturation into a fully engaged and self-aware citizen, first of his city, then of his country and the world beyond. This is a story of memory, identity and an intensely personal relationship with the City of Gold. It is also the story of a violent home invasion and its aftermath, and of a man's determination to reclaim his home town.

Book From Jo burg to Jozi

Download or read book From Jo burg to Jozi written by Heidi Holland and published by Penguin Global. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalists Heidi Holland and Adam Roberts approached about 80 journalists and writers based in Johannesburg and asked them to write short pieces about the city in which they work and live. They did not specify form or style - the contributors were free to express themselves however they wanted to.

Book The Boy Who Never Gave Up

Download or read book The Boy Who Never Gave Up written by Emmanuel Taban and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1994, 16-year-old Emmanuel Taban walked out of war-torn Sudan with nothing and nowhere to go after he had been tortured at the hands of government forces, who falsely accused him of spying for the rebels. When he finally managed to escape, he literally took a wrong turn and, instead of being reunited with his family, ended up in neighbouring Eritrea as a refugee. Over the months that followed, young Emmanuel went on a harrowing journey, often spending weeks on the streets and facing many dangers. Relying on the generosity of strangers, he made the long journey south to South Africa, via Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, travelling mostly by bus and on foot. When he reached Johannesburg, 18 months after fleeing Sudan, he was determined to resume his education. He managed to complete his schooling with the help of Catholic missionaries and entered medical school, qualifying as a doctor, and eventually specialising in pulmonology. Emmanuel's skills and dedication as a physician, and his stubborn refusal to be discouraged by setbacks, led to an important discovery in the treatment of hypoxaemic COVID-19 patients. By never giving up, this son of South Sudan has risen above extreme poverty, racism and xenophobia to become a South African and African legend. This is his story.

Book South Africa Coloring

    Book Details:
  • Author : Skyler Rankin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-08
  • ISBN : 9781086777314
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book South Africa Coloring written by Skyler Rankin and published by . This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOUTH AFRICA COLORING: AN ADULT COLORING BOOK: Cape Town & Johannesburg - 2 Coloring Books In 1 *An awesome collection of South Africa coloring patterns *Perfect for relaxation and stress relief *2 copies of each image, for two chances to color! *Rad original designs, from Scribble Press!

Book South Africa

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ann Heinrichs
  • Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780516203409
  • Pages : 52 pages

Download or read book South Africa written by Ann Heinrichs and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 1997 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A basic overview of the history, geography, climate, and culture of South Africa.

Book Figgy in the World

Download or read book Figgy in the World written by Tamsin Janu and published by Scholastic Australia. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Figgy has two problems. One is her name. Nobody in Ghana has that name. The other is that her grandmother is ill and needs special medicine. Figgy can’t do much about her name, but she can do something for Grandma Ama. She will go to America and bring back the medicine, and Kwame, her special goat, will go with her. Out in the wide world she will meet some bad people, but she will also find good friends.

Book Journey to Jo burg

Download or read book Journey to Jo burg written by Beverley Naidoo and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in teaching literature to high school students.

Book Journey to Jo Burg

    Book Details:
  • Author : Naidoo Beverley
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014-07-01
  • ISBN : 9781632452641
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book Journey to Jo Burg written by Naidoo Beverley and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natasha Wing was born in Milford, Connecticut in 1960. At the age of 20 she moved to Arizona where she finished college at Arizona State University in 1982 with a B.S. in Advertising. In 1988 she married Daniel Wing and moved to Northern California where

Book Journey to Jo   Burg  HarperCollins Children   s Modern Classics

Download or read book Journey to Jo Burg HarperCollins Children s Modern Classics written by Beverley Naidoo and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of love, commitment and the flowering of the human spirit against the background of South Africa’s apartheid.

Book JOURNEY TO JO BURG

Download or read book JOURNEY TO JO BURG written by and published by CHANGDER OUTLINE. This book was released on 2024-05-29 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE JOURNEY TO JO'BURG MCQ (MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS) SERVES AS A VALUABLE RESOURCE FOR INDIVIDUALS AIMING TO DEEPEN THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF VARIOUS COMPETITIVE EXAMS, CLASS TESTS, QUIZ COMPETITIONS, AND SIMILAR ASSESSMENTS. WITH ITS EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF MCQS, THIS BOOK EMPOWERS YOU TO ASSESS YOUR GRASP OF THE SUBJECT MATTER AND YOUR PROFICIENCY LEVEL. BY ENGAGING WITH THESE MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS, YOU CAN IMPROVE YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE SUBJECT, IDENTIFY AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT, AND LAY A SOLID FOUNDATION. DIVE INTO THE JOURNEY TO JO'BURG MCQ TO EXPAND YOUR JOURNEY TO JO'BURG KNOWLEDGE AND EXCEL IN QUIZ COMPETITIONS, ACADEMIC STUDIES, OR PROFESSIONAL ENDEAVORS. THE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS ARE PROVIDED AT THE END OF EACH PAGE, MAKING IT EASY FOR PARTICIPANTS TO VERIFY THEIR ANSWERS AND PREPARE EFFECTIVELY.