- Publisher: Harper
- Year: 2025
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 110pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 196x127mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.1kg
- ISBN: 9780008726478
- Product code: 546425
Journey to Jo’Burg
New Paperback Illustrated
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Desperately worried about their baby sibling’s health, 13-year-old Naledi and her younger brother set out to walk the 300 kilometres to their mother's workplace in Johannesburg, a physically arduous journey symbolic of their awakening to the systemic injustices they face in apartheid South Africa. Age 9+
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This is the story of love, commitment and the flowering of the human spirit against the background of South Africa's apartheid.
Frightened that their baby sister Dineo will die, thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother Tiro run away from their grandmother to Johannesburg to find their mother, who works there as a maid. Their journey illustrates at every turn the grim realities of apartheid - the pass laws, bantustans, racism, the breakdown of family life.
The opulence of the white "Madam's" house contrasts starkly with the reality that Naledi and Tiro face - that their baby sister is suffering from starvation, not an incurable disease.
Frightened that their baby sister Dineo will die, thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother Tiro run away from their grandmother to Johannesburg to find their mother, who works there as a maid. Their journey illustrates at every turn the grim realities of apartheid - the pass laws, bantustans, racism, the breakdown of family life.
The opulence of the white "Madam's" house contrasts starkly with the reality that Naledi and Tiro face - that their baby sister is suffering from starvation, not an incurable disease.
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Desperately worried about their baby sibling’s health, 13-year-old Naledi and her younger brother set out to walk the 300 kilometres to their mother's workplace in Johannesburg, a physically arduous journey symbolic of their awakening to the systemic injustices they face in apartheid South Africa. <i>Age 9+</i>
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