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	Book Review: Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
		Mark sees his and other families in his neighborhood succumb to the demoralizing ways and laws of the white people to such a degree that he begins to fall into an emotional downward spiral.
		Mark watches her search all day, every day, on her relentless hunt for a job to pay the rent, food, clothes, and education for her children.
		Mark Mathabane’s memoir shows readers the process of going from poverty to prosperity, from illiteracy to literacy, and from being unaccepted to accepted.
	teenink.com /Past/2006/October/20532.html (375 words)

	ClassZone.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mathabane initially had a difficult time adjusting to life in the United States.
		Mathabane finally graduated from Dowling College in New York in 1983, and during his last semester there, he began writing Kaffir Boy, which was published in 1986.
		Mathabane has continued to write and publish other books about his life and his family.
	www.classzone.com /novelguides/authors/mathaban.cfm (360 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Kaffir Boy at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In any case, Johannes Mathabane (the author, who later adopted the name Mark) was born the eldest of seven children to poor parents who lived in the ghetto of Alexandra, a fl township on the outskirts of Johannesburg.
		Mathabane's existence in the 1960s and 70s was truly meager and oppressive, yet because of segregation, he writes that about 90% of whites knew nothing about just how poor the living conditions were for fl people.
		Mathabane continues his grim story as he writes about the abuse he suffered at the hands of his father, a bitter man who rejected education as useless and spent his money on gambling and alcohol.
	www.epinions.com /content_151446064772 (1617 words)

	MLK Community Service Awards Speaker - Mark Mathabane
		Mark Mathabane touched the hearts of millions with his sensational autobiography Kaffir Boy.
		A childhood of devastating poverty, terrifying and brutal police raids and relentless humiliation drove him to the brink of suicide at the age of ten.
		Mark is also the founder of the Magdalene Mathabane Scholarship Fund, which pays tuition and buys uniforms for orphaned and needy children in Alexandra, South Africa.
	www.sph.emory.edu /AWARDS/2001/mathabane.html (545 words)

	BOOK TV.ORG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mark Mathabane discusses his book, which is written in his sister Miriam's voice about her experience growing up in a ghetto under Apartheid South Africa.
		Mathabane also discusses his mother, who was his source of hope through her story-telling and care, and continually fought for his access to education.
		Mathabane also discusses his initial hatred of whites based on his interaction with the police who raided the ghetto, but eventually changed through other relationships.
	www.booktv.org /PublicLives/index.asp?segID=1503&schedID=82 (212 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Miriam's Song: A Memoir at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mathabane, (I didn't catch her name-- she's referred to as Mama in Miriam's Song) still embraces education and works hard to be sure that her seven children are able to attend school.
		Mark Mathabane, originally known as Johannes, had moved to the United States in the late 1970s to attend college and play tennis.
		Mathabane's time in the United States has been very fruitful and when he published Kaffir Boy he attracted attention from Oprah Winfrey, who paid to have several members of Mathabane's family come to the United States for a visit and a spot on her television show.
	www.epinions.com /content_169341914756 (1479 words)

	multiracial.com - Love In Black And White (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mark infused his replies with incisive observations about race and such poignant details about his life in the ghetto that an overwhelming feeling of empathy arose within me. I had never before heard of such horrors or such a graphic description of the plight and resiliency of South African fls.
		Mark was all the things I had ever hoped for in a man - an intellectual, a lover of books and philosophy and classical music, an athlete, a fellow writer, a sensitive and compassionate human being and a loyal friend.
		Mark Mathabane, author of the bestsellers Kaffir Boy and Kaffir Boy in America, grew up fearing and hating whites in a South African ghetto.
	www.multiracial.com /readers/mathabane2.html (7448 words)

	Kaffir Boy, a voice of hope from South Africa
		Not beauty, but fear, marks the mother’s face as she throws a torn blanket around her shoulders and tells Mark not to open the door, and not to be afraid, for she will be back soon.
		Mark follows the father out the door, looks up the street, and sees hundreds of bound men and women being kicked and shoved, then loaded into trucks, to be taken to prison, where they will work in the potato fields.
		Mark went to the public school, where there were beatings if one didn’t have the necessary books, or the proper uniform, and often his mother couldn’t afford either.
	www.takingfive.com /kaffir_boy.htm (1177 words)

	Cushcity.com - Miriam's Song: A Memoir
		Mark Mathabane first came to prominence with the publication of Kaffir Boy, which became a New York Times bestseller.
		It is the gripping tale of a woman -- representative of an entire generation -- who came of age amid the violence and rebellion of the 1980s and finally saw the destruction of apartheid and the birth of a new and democratic South Africa.
		Mathabane writes in Miriam's voice, based on stories she told him, but he has re-created her unforgettable experience as only someone who also lived through it could.
	www.cushcity.com /books/0743203240.htm (262 words)

	Kaffir Boy: An Analysis
		Rather, Mathabane firmly believes that every decision he makes — and the elements of fl and white culture that he accepts or rejects — are self-determined exercises of autonomy.
		One of the first observations Mathabane made as a young child was how apartheid had twisted tribalism and used it as a form of oppression against Africans.
		Even at that young age, Mathabane’s individual consciousness was highly developed and he deliberately rejected the superstition of his parents, claiming his right to do so because “my life was my own to do with as I pleased” (102-103).
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/african_history/82699 (323 words)

	Kaffir Boy: The True Story Of A Black Youths Coming Of Age In Apartheid South Africa
		Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa's most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage.
		Yet Mark Mathabane, armed only with the courage of his family and a hard-won education, raised himself up from the squalor and humiliation to win a scholarship to an American university.
		Though certain aspects of Mark's life are shocking, they only help to give you a better understanding of the environment in which he lived and make Mark Mathabane human..
	thegreatlands.com /store/0684848287.php (1323 words)

	The Independent Weekly: Collective power
		Armed with wit and a crisp South African accent, author Mark Mathabane could be everyone's favorite cultural studies professor, his speech peppered with references to liberation, oppression and resistance.
		Mathabane is promoting his latest work, Miriam's Song, his younger sister's oral history of survival during one of the most violent periods ever to befall South Africa.
		Mark Mathabane: It arose from my concern for this generation to which Miriam belongs.
	www.indyweek.com /durham/2000-07-12/ae.html (1454 words)

	Pomfret School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mathabane, who grew up in a 15-square-foot rented shed in a one square mile ghetto that was home to 200,000 people, had no bed.
		Mathabane's father was once arrested for the crime of being unemployed, and the family was not allowed to know where he had been taken.
		For more information about Mathabane, the opening chapters of his books, and information on the Magdalene Scholarship Fund he created in honor of his mother, click on www.mathabane.com.
	www.pomfretschool.org /parents/news/news_detail.asp?newsid=162736 (407 words)

	MATHABANE
		Mathabane did what no physically and psychologically battered "Kaffir" from the mean streets of Alexandra was supposed to do -- he escaped to tell about it.
		Mark's fourth book, African Women: Three Generations, describes the struggles, relationships and triumphs of three South African women who were heroines in Kaffir Boy -- his grandmother, mother and sister Florah.
		In September 1997, Mark completed a one-year assignment as a White House Fellow at the Department of Education in Washington, D.C., where he helped implement several education initiatives.
	www.mathabane.com /bio-info.htm (304 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Kaffir Boy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mathabane's gift of expression and putting words on paper that turn into pictures in your mind and deep feelings of despair and hope in your heart is exceptional.
		Mark Mathabane grew up in society where apartheid was in total effect.
		Aware of the unjust laws of apartheid, Mark Mathabane was determined to somehow make a change in the community he lives in.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/157815149X (981 words)

	Amazon.com: Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheir South Africa: Books: Mark Mathabane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mark Mathabane make is so that the readon knows almost every detail so you can better understand the situation that is occuring in the novel.
		Mark's next step lands him in school, although his father is completely bent against him going his mother is able to provide for his education.
		Mark was able to catch my attention though and no other book before has been able to do that, it is a great autobiography to say the least.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0833502115?v=glance (2113 words)

	Guilford College - Mark Mathabane to Visit Guilford College
		Mark Mathabane was born in the ghetto of Alexandra, in Johannesburg, South Africa.
		In 1984, Mathabane graduated cum laude with a degree in economics from Dowling College in New York, where he was the editor of the college paper.
		Mathabane's fourth book, African Women: Three Generations, published in April 1994, describes the struggles, relationships and triumphs of three South African women who were heroines in Kaffir Boy-his grandmother, mother and sister Florah.
	www.guilford.edu /newsEvents/index.cfm?ID=600000040 (731 words)

	CNN Transcript - CNN Movers: Mark Mathabane's Escape from Apartheid Takes Him to the Top in America - June 17, 2000
		MARK MATHABANE, WRITER: Whenever the rats got wild and they'd eat the bottom of my feet, then the only time I would realize it is when I stood up and realized that my feet were so raw I couldn't stand.
		Mathabane's first books were all non-fiction, but when it came to his fifth book, "Ubuntu," a novel, despite his success, no one would touch it.
		Mathabane is also making strides in another, more personal mission, helping his family enjoy the benefits of life in the United States, including access to education.
	transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0006/17/mld.00.html (2940 words)

	Berea College - Public Relations
		Best-selling author Mark Mathabane will speak during African Awareness Week at Berea College, Nov. 3-11, a focus on the arts, culture and history of Africa.
		Mathabane's autobiography "Kaffir Boy," which tells the story of his coming of age under apartheid in South Africa, was on the New York Times and Washington Post bestseller lists and has been translated into several languages.
		After spending the first 18 years of his life in devastating poverty in a South African fl ghetto, Mathabane was able to turn his love of learning and dreams of tennis stardom into a way out of a dead-end life, thanks in large part to the courage and sacrifice of his mother.
	www.berea.edu /publicrelations/newsreleases/2001/2001-10-31-africanawrenessweek.asp (469 words)

	MATHABANE
		All of us at Mathabane Books and Lectures look forward to working with you to arrange for Mark's visit to your campus to give a lecture or commencement address.
		Mark's lectures have inspired and empowered thousands across the country in middle schools, high schools, colleges, universities, businesses and government.
		He believes that recognizing and affirming our common humanity is key to survival and achieving peace, and that education and knowledge are key to overcoming adversity, unleashing one's potential and achieving success in life.
	www.mathabane.com /lectures.htm (328 words)

	Powell's Books - Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark Mathabane
		Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa's most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage.
		Yet Mark Mathabane, armed only with the courage of his family and a hard-won education, raised himself up from the squalor and humiliation to win a scholarship to an American university.
		Mark Mathabane is the author of Kaffir Boy in America, Love in Black and White, and African Women: Three Generations.
	www.powells.com /partner/30035/biblio/9780684848280 (347 words)

	African American Books 44 Kaffir Boy:
		Living illegally in a shanty outside Johannesburg, Johannes (renamed Mark) Mathabane and his illiterate family endured the heartbreak and hopelessness of poverty and the violence of sadistic police and marauding gangs.
		Encouraged by his determined mother and grandmother, Mathabane taught himself to read English and play tennis, and, through the assistance of U.S. tennis star Stan Smith and his own efforts and intelligence, obtained a tennis scholarship from a South Carolina college in 1978.
		Mathabane writes with compelling energy, and the details of his struggle will grip readers with immediate intensity.
	africanamericanbooks.netfirms.com /african_american_books_44.htm (711 words)

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		Mark finds himself having to make very hard choices, but turns to education, tennis and belief in himself, to master his fears and become a successful person.
		Mark's goal is to talk to students and teach them not to take a free country and a free education for granted.
		His message was to be thankful that we as students may never have to face what Mark, and thousands of fl Africans faced during the painstaking laws of apartheid.
	www.angelfire.com /space/edge/language.html (225 words)

	Mark Mathabane to visit as Kovler Fellow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mathabane was born in the ghetto of Alexandra in Johannesburg, South Africa.
		In his books, Mathabane recalls various experiences, including scenes from his childhood in which he dodges police raids, eats leeches to keep from starving and lives in a 15-foot-by-15-foot rat-infested home with the rest of his family.
		Mathabane and his wife, Gail Mathabane, are the co-authors of Love in Black & White (1992), which describes their personal experiences as an interracial couple in America.
	chronicle.uchicago.edu /941013/kovler.shtml (451 words)

	DCPL: Programming Calendar: June: Mark Mathabane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Author Mark Mathabane will make one of his first appearances in the Washington Metropolitan area to read and discuss his new book, Miriam's Song: A Memoir, as the culminating speaker at the DC Center for the Book's Spring Author Series.
		Memorial Library, 901 G Street, N.W. Miriam's Song is a powerful memoir of a young fl woman coming of age in South Africa amid the violence of apartheid.
		Mark Mathabane writes based on stories his sister Miriam told him, and recreates her experience of growing up in South Africa.
	www.dclibrary.org /news/methabane.html (331 words)

	Miss Porter's School \| MPS Celebrates MLK Day 2004
		Mathabane, Head of School Burch Ford spoke about the Miss Porter's School commitment to diversity: “At MPS, there is not a tolerance of differences, but an active appreciation of what we can learn from our differences.”
		Mathabane spent the first 18 years of his life as the eldest of seven children in a one-square-mile ghetto that was home to more than 200,000 fls.
		Mathabane's life around, and he left South Africa to attend an American university on scholarship.
	www.missporters.org /pages/sitepage.cfm?id=1078 (356 words)

	Kaffir Boy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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		Kaffir Boy is Mark Mathabane's autobiography about life under the South African apartheid regime.
		It focuses on the brutality of the apartheid system and how he escaped from it, and from the township of Alexandra, to become a well-known tennis player.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kaffir_Boy (112 words)

	Amazon.de: Miriam's Song: A Memoir: English Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mark Mathabane, the author of Kaffir Boy, helps recount the life of his sister, who remained behind in South Africa after he left and witnessed its struggle to throw off apartheid.
		Her brother, Mark Mathabane, writing in the first person present tense, reveals the horrors of living in a ghetto of Alexandra where poverty, filth, violence, abuse, and fear are everyday occurrences.
		This is the first I have ever read of the Mathabane Family and their remarkable accomplishments despite the contrived, race-based evil that was Apartheid.
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/0684833034 (1422 words)

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