Mark Mathabane, a 27-year-old black South African raised in a shantytown outside Johannesburg, writes of his experiences in the U.S. after being rescued from apartheid by ex-Wimbledon champion Stan Smith. A heartwarming, controversial, intensely personal story of a unique witness to our times.
Mark Mathabane tells the stories of his sister Florah, mother Geli, and his grandmother. They have to cope with abuse, gambling, drunkenness, and infidelity from the men they love or have been forced to marry. All three women defy African tradition and the poverty and violence of life in a modern urban society, to make fulfilling lives for ...
A powerful and personal look at the controversial issue of interracial relationships from the acclaimed author of Kaffir Boy. Gail, a white American, and Mark, a black South African, relate their own experiences in an intimate yet universal story of love.
From the most hopeful to the most humiliating, Mark Mathabane tells the story of his life in Apartheid South Africa. Oprah Winfrey's production company, Harpo, Inc., has bought the film rights to this extraordinary testament to the human spirit. A major television collaboration with Warner Brothers is being planned to chronicle the grim horrors of ...
When the author and his family moved to America, his sister, Miriam, remained in South Africa. This tale, told in Miriam's voice, tells of a woman who came of age amid the violence and rebellion of the 1980s. She saw the destruction of the hates apartheid system and the birth of a new and democratic South Africa. Miriam emerges as both an innocent ...
The author of the best-selling apartheid memoir KAFFIR BOY tells his sister's story here. When the author moved to America to escape the oppressive regime in South Africa, his sister stayed behind, and saw the apartheid system crumble and a new nation emerge in its place. Her story tells of both the cruelties of the old regime and the excitement ...
The dramatic, revealing, and riveting story of how Mark and Gail Mathabane overcame their own prejudices, society's disapproval, family opposition, and personal self-doubts to be together in an interracial relationship. 16 pages of photos.
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