African Village Boy
Poverty and Bantu Education Systems of Apartheid South Africa
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About the Book
This Book is based on 100 % true story
Preface
“At times when I recall your life from the past, pleasure comes rushing through my neural systems mainly because having been grown up in remote rural villages of Moletjie area, I know that one might loose hope of reaching the stars.” That was my buddy trying to sum up my life with few words.
Poverty couldn’t be the wall to boundary my potentiality, but I have built the foundation of my victory based on history. Along the thorny road to reaching my dreams, lots of salty tears escaped my ocular boundaries and I have tasted about few milliliters of them. This includes the time when the Bantu Education teachers sjamboked me to the level where I could not sit nor walk. I dropped schooling for sometimes. The life of a poor village boy was nothing but anything parallel or below zero. Indeed my history has determined my destiny. Today I’m a Fulbright Scholar.
About the Author
Author
Matshwene Edwin Moshia, the survivor of the ugly face of poverty and notorious Bantu education system of Apartheid South Africa was born and raised in the poverty stricken rural villages of Moletjie,
He is an academic, a poet, a comedian, a writer and a Peer Educator in HIV/AIDS issues, Youth Empowerment and rural development matters. He has won three comedy awards in Limpopo Province of South Africa in 2002 through 2004. He has also authored a poetry book yet to be published.