Kaffir Boy, Mathabane's first book, detailed the brutal hardship of growing up black in South Africa. A driven student and gifted tennis player, Mathabane came to the attention of American tennis pro Stan Smith who helped him secure college scholarships...

"What television newscasts did to expose the horrors of the Vietnam War in the 1960s, books like Kaffir Boy may well do for the horrors of apartheid in `80s," Diane Manuel predicted in a 1986 Chicago Tribune Book World review of Kaffir Boy: The True Stor...

Kaffir Boy: the True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa - Mark Mathabane - 1986 Introduction In Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa, Mark Mathabane presents...

Kaffir Boy is Mark Mathabane's 1986 autobiography about life under the South African apartheid regime. It focuses on the brutality of the apartheid system and how he escaped from it, and from the township Alexandra, to become a well-known tennis player....

This week's look at what's new, mysterious or bountiful in the produce aisles. The kaffir lime is a pear-shaped, gnarled citrus fruit whose leaves are a key ingredient in Thai cooking (so is the fruit itself, and its rind, but we'll focus here...

I have been called a "native" of South Africa. And I've been called a "white kaffir". I proudly confess to being both and I am happy to find them listed in the monumental new Dictionary of South African English. Even if the good book...

An award-winning memoir about growing up poor and black in apartheid-era South Africa was banned from an intermediate school after a parent complained about a two-paragraph scene of men paying hungry boys for sex.Superintendent Sonny Da Marto ordered an eighth-grade teacher to stop using "Kaffir...

Essay provides a discussion on "Kaffir Boy" written by Mark Mathabane.

A review of Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane.