Download or read book Sizwe s Smile written by Vianne Venter and published by Bookdash. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today Sizwe learns that a smile is something you can give away without losing it.
Download or read book Sizwe s Smile written by Vianne Venter and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gogo s Song written by David R. Donald and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is often interesting to know why an author chose to write a particular story. First, in order for me to explain this reason, I need to tell you a little about my background. I have worked as a teacher, then as a child psychologist in schools, and finally as a lecturer and professor of Educational Psychology in universities. It is only since my retirement some twelve years ago that I had the time to start writing stories for both young children and older adolescents. Because of my professional background - and particular interest in reading development - all my published short stories and novels have an underlying purpose. And that purpose is to bring to young people reading material that is not only interesting and that they can relate to their personal lives, but also carries with it something that could be useful in their psychological development. All of my three novels in this Xlibris Corporation series (see the relevant titles of the other two novels below) have an underlying developmental theme and purpose. And this is to provide stories that I hope may help young people deal with the painful feelings and practical difficulties that always have to be faced when someone has lost a loved one. Perhaps even more important, each of the stories also tells, in its own way, how the main character overcomes and rises above his or her grief and difficulties. In each case, this recovery comes not only from the help and support of one or more friends, relatives, neighbours and teachers but also, significantly, from the determination and courage of each of the main characters. In order to help you relate these important elements to your own life and perhaps to the lives of other young people whom you may know, I have added two short sections at the end of each book. The first provides you with a number of Questions to think about' and the second with a few carefully chosen Activities' for you to undertake. Even though it may take a little effort, please follow through on both of the above elements as they will most definitely help you get the most out of each story. Second, I believe that an author of any fictional story needs to be personally familiar with the place as well as the language* and culture of the people who live there. Without this element, the story will simply not feel authentic or real' to any reader wherever they happen to live in the world. My hope, again, is that this will be true for you. *In each of my three novels, I have a list at the end of the novel of the English translations, and a guide to the pronunciation of those important names, words and phrases in the indigenous languages that I have chosen to use in the respective novels. I think this may contribute to the authenticity of the stories as you read them. I hope so! The titles of my other two novels in this Xlibris Corporation series are: I am Thabeka and Woza Thabo!
Download or read book The New Apartheid written by Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Africa's story is often presented as a triumph of new over old, but while formal apartheid was abolished decades ago, stark and distressing similarities persist. Dr Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh explores the edifice of systemic racial oppression -- the new apartheid -- that continues to thrive, despite or even because of our democratic system.
Download or read book When the Cobra Strikes written by Sebati Mafate and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international roller coaster tale of friendship, romance, betrayal, the seduction of fame and fortune, and the dark secret world of the martial arts. Sizwe Ryan Biko is an American educated South African, and a two-time all Africa karate champion, who comes back to the United States to finalize what appears to be a simple transaction that involves a contraband that has to be smuggled through the airport amidst tight security. Sizwe is double-crossed, and amidst the unfolding of events, which among other things includes being caught up in a bizarre love triangle; Sizwe has to face and overcome an opponent far more lethal and deadlier than he has ever met in the ring or on the streets-blindness.
Download or read book Critical Essays on Commonwealth Literature written by K. Balachandran and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed essays on works from Africa, Bangladesh, India, New Zealand, and the West Indies.
Download or read book The Dramatic Art of Athol Fugard written by Albert Wertheim and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Albert Wertheim's study of Fugard's plays is both extremely insightful and beautifully written—a book that held my attention from beginning to end. It was a pleasure to read! Wertheim succeeds in communicating the greatness of Fugard as a playwright, actor, and director. He also conveys well what Fugard has learned from other plays and dramatists. Thus, he places Fugard's works not so much in a South African context as in a theatrical context. He also illuminates his interpretations with the help of Fugard's manuscripts, previously available only in South Africa. This book is aimed not only at teachers, students, scholars, and performers of Fugard but also at the person who simply loves going to see a Fugard play at the theatre. —Nancy Topping Bazin, Eminent Scholar and Professor Emeritus, Old Dominion University Considered one of the most brilliant, powerful, and theatrically astute of modern dramatists, South African playwright Athol Fugard is best known for The Blood Knot,"MASTER HAROLD" . . . and the boys, A Lesson from Aloes, and Sizwe Bansi Is Dead. The energy and poignancy of Fugard's work have their origins in the institutionalized racism of his native South Africa, and more recently in the issues facing a new South Africa after apartheid. In The Dramatic Art of Athol Fugard, Albert Wertheim analyzes the form and content of Fugard's dramas, showing that they are more than a dramatic chronicle of South African life and racial problems. Beginning with the specifics of his homeland, Fugard's plays reach out to engage more far-reaching issues of human relationships, race and racism, and the power of art to evoke change. The Dramatic Art of Athol Fugard demonstrates how Fugard's plays enable us to see that what is performed on stage can also be performed in society and in our lives; how, inverting Shakespeare, Athol Fugard makes his stage the world.
Download or read book Siri s Smile written by R. Amarendran and published by Tulika Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rural Resistance in South Africa written by Thembela Kepe and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on scholarship from multiple disciplines, this volume presents a fresh understanding of the Mpondo uprising in South Africa; focusing on its meanings and significance in relation to land, rural governance, politics and the agency of the marginalized.
Download or read book Prism written by SheriLou and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-06 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book Bobby and his cousin JR are your standard good-looking, arrogant white American men who come from a privileged Protestant family, and with that comes certain expectations. Be successful, be rich, know your place in this world—and find a lovely white woman to marry. But the cousins soon discover that you can’t help who your heart falls in love with. Prism introduces us to people who would not normally cross the color line, but who fall in love despite parents, friends, or social norms. About the Author SheriLou is a retired military and government worker. She is a member of a senior advisory council, and she also started a knitting group that met two days a week before the Covid shutdown. Other than knitting, her special interests include writing and traveling. Her family consists of two sons.
Download or read book Statements written by Athol Fugard and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developed in workshops with award-winning actors, these are the works in Fugard's canon that most directly confront the dehumanizing brutality of apartheid. Includes: Sizwe Bansi is Dead, The Island, and Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act.
Download or read book When A Man Cries written by Siphiwo Mahala and published by Pan Macmillan South africa. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Themba Limba is a family man who is caught between his flourishing career as a teacher and municipal councillor in the township of Sekunjalo, and his overriding sexual interests. Despite his attempts to maintain his status in the community, his actions eventually lead to his downfall. What follows is an account - sometimes tragic, occasionally humorous, and always compelling - of Themba's efforts to regain his dignity and pride in the eyes of his family and community. *When a Man cries *is an uncompromising and engrossing novel about the challenges of manhood in contemporary South African society. It interrogates the dynamics of township life and the human and socio-economic realities of the most impoverished communities in post-apartheid South Africa.
Download or read book The God Who Made Mistakes written by Ekow Duker and published by Pan Macmillan South africa. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind the closed doors of their suburban Johannesburg home, Themba and Ayanda Hlatshwayo, both legal professionals, are beset by deep tensions that claw with relentless intensity at the polished facade of their lives. Ayanda seeks solace in dance classes, while Themba is increasingly drawn to the male companionship he finds at a book club. With wit and sympathy, The God Who Made Mistakes explores the origins of Themba's unease and confused sense of identity. It takes us back to a river bank in Alex, the township where he grew up, and to a boy he once knew who met a violent death there. As the story peels back the painful layers of recollection, Themba’s domineering mother, Differentia, has a major decision to make. When developers set their sights on buying the family home and building a supermarket in its place, tendrils of envy and greed begin to curl out of unexpected quarters, as the unscrupulous seek to grab a share of the spoils. Back yard tenant, Tinyiko, with her short skirts and questionable morality, and Themba’s disgraced, unemployed elder brother, Bongani, begin to plot and scheme, while across town Themba’s fragile marriage faces its biggest challenge. When his past walks unexpectedly into his present, it threatens to blow apart his carefully constructed world. The God Who Made Mistakes is a powerful, poignant story of unexpressed longings which, when finally uttered, can no longer be contained.
Download or read book The Second Verse written by Onke Mazibuko and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second verse of any song always has to be more killer than the first. Always. The rhythm has to slap. The lyrics must be on point. The feeling intense. And the impact mad definitive. It’s just the way it is. In the same way, if you do well once in life, then you always have to be better from that point onwards. No doubt. East London, aka Slummies, circa 1998. Bokang Damane is a dreamer and an outsider with mad problems. Things only get worse when everyone thinks he wants to off himself just because he wrote an essay on suicide. Really? Talk about d.r.a.m.a. Life at the moment is just a sorry son-of-a-checklist of insolvable problems. Problem #1: Not black enough for the black kids and too black for the white kids. Yep, that’s what happens when you attend a mad pompous all boys’ college and live in the burbs. Problem #2: Family finances are a joke – they can’t even afford Bokang’s initiation. Now he can’t get props like any decent Xhosa man. Problem #3: An alcoholic, gambling attorney for a father who expects the world to bend to his will. What’s a man gotta do? Apart from freaking the hell out? Bokang just wants to rap, sketch and be left alone. Everyone keeps yacking on about Bokang reaching his true potential but everyone keeps getting in the way. So what happens? Boy meets girl. It wouldn’t be much of a story otherwise.
Download or read book The Varied Scene written by Keith Whitlock and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Election Day and other stories written by Samuel Mphuthi and published by Digital on Demand. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1994 South Africans had their first democratic elections which meant different type of living for different races coming from apartheid. It is through these new ways of living that the stories of this book are born. It is through these stories we learn about the frustration, courage and coming together of people of which was never heard of during apartheid. At the end we see heroes and heroines as the citizens learn to exercise tolerance, acceptance and working together beyond their diversity.
Download or read book There Must be a Rainbow written by Thulisizwe Mamba and published by Bookdash. This book was released on with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this delightful tale of hope, Jabulile’s dream of helping people comes true after a terrible storm hits the Valley.
