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Khwezi – The Remarkable Story Of Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo (2017) is a book by Redi Tlhabi, a journalist and radio presenter from South Africa about the life of Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo. South African President Jacob Zuma was tried for raping Kuzwayo , and controversially acquitted in the Johannesburg High Court in December 2005.
She had a part as a shebeen queen, alongside Sidney Poitier in the 1951 film Cry, the Beloved Country. [5] After her first marriage was dissolved, she married Godfrey Kuzwayo in 1950. [ 6 ] She worked as a teacher in the Transvaal until 1952, giving up teaching on the introduction of the Bantu Education Act, 1953 , which cut back opportunities ...
In the Imperial China of the Qing dynasty, there are five brothers who "all looked exactly alike."They each possess a special talent: the first brother can swallow the sea, the second has an unbreakable iron neck, the third can stretch his legs to incredible lengths, the fourth is immune to burning, and the fifth can hold his breath forever.
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
The Luminaries is a 2013 novel by Eleanor Catton. [2] Set in New Zealand's South Island in 1866, the novel follows Walter Moody, a prospector who travels to the West Coast settlement of Hokitika to make his fortune on the goldfields.
Labyrinths (1962, 1964, 1970, 1983) is a collection of short stories and essays by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges.It was translated into English, published soon after Borges won the International Publishers' Prize with Samuel Beckett.
Plot summary [ edit ] In "Father's Last Escape," the concluding story of the novel, Schulz makes an explicit reference to Franz Kafka 's The Metamorphosis (Schulz helped his one-time fiancee translate Kafka's The Trial into Polish, a translation for which Schulz provided an introduction).
No Longer at Ease is a 1960 novel by Chinua Achebe.It is the story of an Igbo man, Obi Okonkwo, who leaves his village for an education in Britain and then a job in the Colonial Nigeria civil service, but is conflicted between his African culture and Western lifestyle and ends up taking a bribe.