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Mongane Wally Serote was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, 1944, just four years before the National Party (South Africa) came to power in South Africa. His early education took place in the poverty-stricken township of Alexandra and later at Morris Isaacson High School – the school in Jabavu , Soweto , and Sacred Heart Commercial High School ...
Welcome to Our Hillbrow, is a novel by South African novelist Phaswane Mpe which deals with issues of xenophobia, AIDS, tradition, and inner city status in the Hillbrow neighborhood of post-apartheid Johannesburg. It was first published in 2001.
A collection of short stories and poems, Brooding Clouds, was published posthumously in 2008. Mpe was born in the northern city of Polokwane in Tiragalong, [2] and moved to Johannesburg at the age of 19 to attend university, [1] and ended up living in the deprived inner city area of Hillbrow, a place where he later set his first novel.
In one of his poems, he claimed to "shoot the English with bullets that are British". In another piece of work, "Riding the Victim's Train" (on the CD/album The H.a.l.f Ranthology ), Rampolokeng calls himself "a leper cast out in the desert, and cold, without a snout or paw in the pot of gold".
Mike Alfred is a South African poet, journalist, and historian who lives in Muizenberg Cape Town. His poems have been widely published in anthologies and literary journals. . He has produced six collections of poetry and three books and many articles and papers about the city and people of Johannesbu
SparkNotes, originally part of a website called The Spark, is a company started by Harvard students Sam Yagan, Max Krohn, Chris Coyne, and Eli Bolotin in 1999 that originally provided study guides for literature, poetry, history, film, and philosophy.
Bosman was born at Kuils River, near Cape Town, in the Cape Colony, to an Afrikaner family.He was raised with English as well as Afrikaans.While Bosman was still young, his family travelled frequently, he spent a short time at Potchefstroom College which would later become Potchefstroom High School for Boys, he later moved to Johannesburg where he went to school at Jeppe High School for Boys ...
In Johannesburg in the 1950s, crime was a day-to-day reality, and Sophiatown was the nucleus of all reef crimes. Gangsters were city-bred and spoke a mixture of Afrikaans and English, known as tsotsitaal. Some of the more well-known gangs in Sophiatown were the Russians, the Americans, the Gestapo, the Berliners and the Vultures.