Soweto Burning by Don Emby
In the 1950s a routine underground inspection in a gold mine turns into a horrifying experience for a South African mining engineer.
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In the 1950s a routine underground inspection in a gold mine turns into a horrifying experience for a South African mining engineer.
Many thousands of South African children are brought up by their grandmothers. This is one of the many manifestations of an unstable and distraught society, where the mother to child bond is too often broken, causing pain and a deep-seated sense of loss to both parties. Each Gogo-raised child’s story is different, but the general theme is the same: it deals with abandonment, with only qualified acceptance, but most of all with the simple absence of a real mother presence. The title of Vanessa Neo Mathope’s book – Orphaned, with Living Parents – tells it all. A monstrous imbalance has occurred, and the consequences run deep.