Steering by the Stars: Being young in South Africa; By Mamphela Ramphele.Sixteen teenagers grew up in Crossroads, Cape Town Cape Town or Capetown, city (1991 pop. 854,616), legislative capital of South Africa and capital of Western Cape, a port on the Atlantic Ocean. It was the capital of Cape Province before that province's subdivision in 1994. , in the 1990s. A decade later they find themselves in markedly different circumstances. Bulelwa is a self-confident young woman with a good career; Bulelani is completing a tertiary education Tertiary education, also referred to as third-stage, third level education, or higher education, is the educational level following the completion of a school providing a secondary education, such as a high school, secondary school, or gymnasium. . But Phalo has been killed in a gang fight and most of the others are unemployed. What has made the difference?[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As someone who herself rose above straitened strait·en tr.v. strait·ened, strait·en·ing, strait·ens 1. a. To make narrow. b. To enclose in a limited area; confine. 2. beginnings to achieve great success, Mamphela Ramphele Mamphela Aletta Ramphele (28 December 1947 - ) is a South African academic, businesswoman and medical doctor and was an anti-apartheid activist. She is a current trustee on the board of the Rockefeller Foundation in New York. has a passionate interest in our young people, the risks they face and the strategies they use to overcome them. In Steering by the Stars, she allows youths to speak for themselves--what emerges is the raw truth about being young and black in urban South Africa. Tafelberg, Cape Town 2002 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion