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Name: Mark Mathabane
Birth Date: 1960
Place of Birth: Alexandra, South Africa
Nationality: South African
Gender: Male
Occupations: Writer, Lecturer

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Biography of Mark Mathabane
6,042 words, approx. 20 pages
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...
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Biography of Mark Mathabane
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"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...


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Mark Mathabane Information
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Mark Mathabane (born Johannes Mathabane, October 18, 1960) is a tennis player, author, and lecturer. He was born in Alexandra, Gauteng, South Africa. As he explains in his autobiographical book Kaffir Boy, Mathabane survived the oppressive environment...


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The Americanization of Mark Mathabane
05/28/1989: 794 words, approx. 3 pages
KAFFIR BOY IN AMERICA By Mark Mathabane Scribner. 288 pp. $19.95 THREE YEARS ago in these pages, I lavishly praised Mark Mathabane's Kaffir Boy, a visceral account of the author's childhood and adolescence in Alexandra, a black ghetto outside of Johannesburg....
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MARK MATHABANE, the author of ...
04/28/2002: 455 words, approx. 2 pages
MARK MATHABANE, the author of "Kaffir Boy," writes and lectures on human rights and education. I'm convinced that, to find a way out of the present impasse, the Israelis and Palestinians must embrace the concept that helped bring a peaceful end to apartheid...
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`Kaffir Boy' banned from a middle school
4/13/2007: 354 words, approx. 1 pages
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...
 


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