Two children growing up in 1940s South Africa are told to stay away from lonely places because there is a child abductor on the loose. What could possibly go wrong? Young Maudie doesn’t realise she has a ‘gift’ that...
(The Author)…..has evidently spent much of his time walking round and round, up and down, above and under, in and out of the city’s not very beautiful streets…..He needs no cathedrals for his art, no victorious monuments. To him...
In Johannesburg prosperous whites live in gated communities: when they exit their cars to open the gates, car-jackings are common. But seldom is the victim killed, much less shot twice, like Annette Botha. Piet Botha, the husband of the...
Grade 4-8. Sipho’s idyllic country life ends when his nurturing grandmother dies and he returns to his mother’s shack. Shocked to discover he now has a stepfather who is brutal and abusive, Sipho lasts for six months before running...
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