Soweto, Under the Apricot Tree by Niq Mhlongo Map

Soweto, Under the Apricot Tree by Niq Mhlongo MapThis apricot tree has multiple souls that fill me with wonder every morning and enchant me by afternoon. This tree has bitter sweet memories, just like the fruit it bears. If the apricot trees of Soweto could talk, what stories would they tell? This short story collection provides an imaginative answer. Imbued with a vivid sense of place, it captures the vibrancy of the township and surrounds. Told with satirical flair, life and death are intertwined

lived out all the way to the sea

The sites featured span huge social divides

their love story is like a South African township Romeo and Juliet

The book spans a 300-year history beginning with the exportation of slave labor from Mozambique in the 18th century and ending with the strikes and tensions on the platinum belt in recent years

Cover is very creased but otherwise in good condition

From a Natal boarding school in the seventies and Soviet spies in London in the eighties to the 1995 Rugby World Cup and intrigue in the Union Buildings

covering 35 films from the 1920s to the end of the 1960s

Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2018 and finalist for the Neustadt Prize 2018

They have come to claim for themselves the riches they believe Europe promises but when Sisi

work to survive

suffering and caring

But he did chronicle his progress