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south africa

Once upon a time

2003
Sarie struggles when she reads aloud in class in her South African school, but then she and her friend Auntie Anna find a book about Cinderella in Auntie Anna's old car and begin to read together.

Christiaan Barnard and the story of the first successful heart transplant

2003
Introduces the surgeon who in 1967 became the first to successfully transplant a donor heart into another human being.

Meet Nelson Mandela

1995
Recounts the life and career of Nelson Mandela, the first democratically elected president of South Africa.

This thing called the future

a novel
2011
Fourteen-year-old Khosi's mother wants her to get an education to break out of their South African shantytown, although she herself is wasting away from an untreated illness, while Khosi's grandmother, Gogo, seeks help from a traditional Zulu healer.

Statements

Sizwe Bansi is dead ; The island
1986
Presents three plays written in the early seventies by South African dramatist Athol Fugard in which he explores life under the laws of apartheid.

South Africa

2007
A guide to the customs and etiquette of South Africa that covers land, people, values, attitudes, traditions, socializing, dining out, shopping, travel, health, business, and communicating.

We are all the same

a story of a boy's courage and a mother's love
2005
Presents the story of Nkosi Johnson, a South African boy born with AIDS who became an inspiration to thousands of people suffering from the disease because he believed that every child's life was important.

Desmond Tutu

a biography
2004
Chronicles the life of civil rights leader Desmond Tutu, focusing on his efforts to end Apartheid in South Africa.

Joshua's Bible

2003
Philadelphia preacher Joshua Clay faces a test to his strength and faith when he accepts a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in the 1930s to be the first African-American minister in years sent to do missionary work in South Africa, and arrives only to find himself restricted at every turn and witness to ruthless apartheid policies.

Nelson Mandela

2003
Offers a brief introduction to the life of Nelson Mandela, discussing how he went from serving a sentence of life in prison to becoming the elected president of South Africa.

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