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When their baby sister falls gravely ill they courageously decide to travel 300km from their small village to Johannesburg to summon their mother from work. Originally written in 1985, this book was not historical fiction but a description of life as it was in South Africa at the time. It might be hard, at first, for them to keep the characters straight, since I even struggled with that as an adult. The opulent house of the white “Madam’s” for whom their mother works is a stark contrast with their own appalling reality and the realisation that their baby sister is dying from starvation not an incurable disease. He celebrates Journey to Jo'burg for being the first childrens' book about the lives of black African during apartheid.
It seems clear that the point of the novel is to point up some of the major problems with apartheid, but at the same time it seems to downplay those problems too much. And for children, Journey to Jo'burg is therefore a gentle but also a firm and authentic feeling (with regard to factuality) introduction to this reality (not strictly own voice of course, but considering Beverley Naidoo's biography, I do still consider Journey to Jo'burg to be pretty much from an African perspective and from the pen of a White South African author who actively fought against Apartheid and was also jailed for this).Their mother is able to get time off, beginning the next day, to take her children home and help Dineo. When I saw my husband watching a video with Trevor Noah, I casually dropped a ”he grew up in Soweto”, but this was too much of an insider knowledge (?
She does not like being away from her children but must work in Johannesburg to provide money for food, clothing and an education after their father died.In a no name village, two children aged 13 and 9 decide to go to Jo'burg to bring their mother home - the only person able to maybe save their little sister, severely sick for several days.
It has prompted some lively discussions as well as provided a strong platform for engaging literacy lessons and cross curricular activities for half a term. Zambia comes from the name of the river Zambezi, the rest are not related, but still retain the Z, maybe this will help me in the future. There is really nice character development and vivid imagery which lends itself to readers creating drawings or paintings, allowing them to interpret their own parts of the book. Through meeting Grace they learn about the struggle against the unfair system of the apartheid and the uprising of students against the treatment of black people. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (French former tennis player) has no apparent relation to South Africa (I think I assumed he had).
Reading it, I am so impressed how Naidoo has tackled a very brutal and disturbing topic and made it accessible, while thought provoking, to children.
Read and Respond] makes it easy to explore texts fully and ensure that the children want to keep on reading more. The story highlights the dangers and adventures the children encounter along the way and the challenges they face in South Africa at the time.The majority of people in South Africa were black, but they were treated as second-rate citizens who couldn’t aspire to more than being the servants of those in power. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). When their baby sister suddenly becomes very sick, Naledi and Tiro know, deep down, that only one person can save her.
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