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Journey to Jo'Burg

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Journey to Jo'Burg Synopsis

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.

About This Edition

ISBN: 9780008726478
Publication date: 10th April 2025
Author: Beverley Naidoo
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 112 pages
Series: HarperCollins Children's Classics
Genres: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction
PSHE: Siblings
Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Prejudice and intolerance
Children’s / Teenage: Social topics: Poverty / precarity
Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Multicultural
Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Racism and anti-racism
Stories about Family and Friends
True Stories
Work / Industry