![]() It has something to say to the global family about the ravages of racism, the strength of the family and the perseverance of the African spirit." "Her book may be written to her children's children, but its messages go beyond bloodlines. ![]() She tells a candid, unself-pitying story of endurance in the face of hardships relentlessly reinforced by the apartheid system. ![]() But then came the disaster of teenage pregnancy and forced a change of all immediate plans for a teaching career. All this is described with humour, zest and enjoyment of township life. Her early years in a Transkei village, her childhood and adolescence on the Cape Flats, in Retreat and later Guguletu, where she was poor but secure in a loving family. ![]() It is an account of her eventful first twenty three years. Written as a ‘letter from a Xhosa Grandmother’ to her “grandchildren” so that they do not lose their history, this is Sindiwe Magona’s gift to posterity, not just her biological offspring. ![]()
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