Books Details
Author : Redi Tlhabi Pages : 224 pages Publisher : Jacana Media Language : eng
ISBN-10 : 1431404616 ISBN-13 : 9781431404612
Books Descriptions
Redi Tlhabi, warm-hearted, charismatic and loved throughout South Africa is as
well known for her 702 and Cape Talk radio show as she is for her TV
performances and Sunday Times newspaper column. In this astonishing debut,
Endings and beginnings, she makes the painful journey back to her death-
marred childhood, a journey in which she eventually finds peace and allows her
demons to rest. Redi grew up in the '80s in Orlando, Soweto, with thoughts and
emotions so intense they nearly swallowed up her childhood. It was a time when
Soweto was under siege from two forces - apartheid and endemic, normalized
crime. It was not strange or unusual to refer to so-and-so as 'the rapist' or so-
and-so as 'the killer'. It was also at this time that her father - her hero - was
violently murdered, his body discovered on the street, with one eye removed.
The perpetrators were never found, and the neighbourhood continued to talk
about how he had to be buried without his eye. And then Redi meets Mabegzo:
