This chapter illustrates the day the author was born and the happenings on the event as the author's mother was highly pregnant when she had to go to the highest court of law where her husband was to be sentenced to death and charged with treason ,it is when the magistrate realised that this particular man had a young wife who was heavily pregnant on that day as he asked for the accused to plead with the high court .And the accused explained that he was about to be blessed with a baby and the mother of the child was asked to stand up as she could not Harold sit up strait due to all the complications of being pregnant ,when th magistrate saw all that he had compassion and released the accused on a verbal warning and on that evening the child was born and she was named Phumza which is a xhosa name meaning" rest "as the years went by the child growing in the hands of different caretakers whilst the parent were struggling to make ends meet the father eventually crossed the border to Zambia running away fro the apartheid regime as hehad sworn to fight the laws with his sweat and blood ,he walked to botswana with a friend when he recalled the walk took them 4 full days without food and water .and today that story has never been told .
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Streets of fire
Streets of fire
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The book is about a young gal who was born in Soweto from a mediocre family and grew up as a special and sickly child who had to go to work with her mother as a domestic worker in a noun hotel situated in transvaal while her father was fighting the then apartheid regime in and out of prisons and eventually went to exile ,the book illustrate more about thehappenings in the street of Soweto before and after the liberation and how unfair life can turn out to be for most humans whilst serious stories are left untold and not everything has a good ending in life
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