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The story begins in a small, unnamed village where Naledi and Tiro, a girl and her younger brother, live with their little sister, Dineo, their grandma, and their aunt.
A gripping, heartfelt journey of two siblings desperate to find their mother in Joberg, set off on foot to bring their mother back to save their I'll baby sister. Published during the height of Apartheid in the mid-1980s, this book was banned in South Africa until 1990. Zambia comes from the name of the river Zambezi, the rest are not related, but still retain the Z, maybe this will help me in the future. While on their journey the children are helped by several other black people along the way, but are cautioned about the rules of apartheid that are strictly enforced in the city. Here, they meet a girl named Grace, who helps them find their mother and offers to let them sleep at her house for the night.When their baby sister suddenly becomes very sick, Naledi and Tiro know, deep down, that only one person can save her. I had the privilege of ‘meeting’ Beverley Naidoo in a Zoom lecture recently and was so inspired by her and her story I knew I had to pick this book up immediately.
Their mother works far away in Johannesburg and their father died from a disease caught in the mines. Frightened that their baby sister, Dineo, will die, 13-year-old Naledi and her younger brother, Tiro, run away from their grandmother to Johannesburg to find their mother, who works there as a maid. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. So the pair bravely decide to walk to their mother who works as a housekeeper and nanny in the big city, Johannesburg.Naledi and Tiro's family is so poor that they can't afford to go to the doctor when Dineo falls sick.
Book reviews cover the content, themes and worldviews of fiction books, not their literary merit, and equip parents to decide whether a book is appropriate for their children. It has prompted some lively discussions as well as provided a strong platform for engaging literacy lessons and cross curricular activities for half a term.In a no name village, two children aged 13 and 9 decide to go to Jo'burg to bring their mother home - the only person able to maybe save their little sister, severely sick for several days. In a social studies or history class, Journey to Jo’Burg could be used to compare and contrast the history of South Africa with that of the U.
The period is South Africa's apartheid years, and while I'm rating four for writing, I'm rating another star for the depiction of tendencies towards popular activism and bringing about change. Naledi convinces Tiro to walk with her to Jo'burg to get their mother, who would have money to take Dineo to the doctor.Originally written in 1985, this book was not historical fiction but a description of life as it was in South Africa at the time. I have loved reading this book and it has opened my eyes to how a powerful text can underpin half a term’s worth of cross curricular lessons. I actually almost have up on it because this first time I tried reading it I got confused by the characters and went to sleep!
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