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Marc Mathabane describes his treatment in 1965 South Africa in his autobiographical "Kaffir Boy." The book provides a look at South Africa's apartheid society of the time.

The author of "Kaffir Boy" Mark Mathabane's father is unfit to provide and care for his family because of his immaturity and ignorance. In this short story a young boy growing up in South Africa is forced by his mother to go to school against his will.