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From the dumps to divining, from despair to dancing! This happens to Mncedisi when he and his mother come to the city. Some people are called to fulfil their role and responsibility to family and community. Could you travel the journey Mncedisi has to? 'He's not a quitter, he has courage and strength, and he's a great dancer!'

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Since 1990 Africa has seen dramatic changes. Africa has witnessed advances in democratization, including the birth of a new, democratic South Africa. Africa has also undergone tremendous political conflicts. Struggling to emerge from the historical legacy of slavery, colonialism and apartheid, Africans have been making history under conditions that are not always of their own making.

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A glam god of a dance champion from overseas enters the Siyagruvers' lives. Will some longstanding friendships survive this? The whole idea of student exchanges comes into focus for Samantha, but she finds that her parents have a very different idea from hers!

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Two pairs of Siyagruva dancers are whisked off to the United States - maybe to dance in Hollywood and Washington. But there are new experiences to be coped with, first - romance for Rashaad and Zadie, and snow for Mncedisi.

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SOUTH AFRICA is a remarkable land of extraordinary beauty, a rich and colourful tapestry of diverse cultures and endless vistas that simply beg to be explored. In this handy little guide, South Africa's Top Sites - Art and Culture, we reveal and explore the rich cultural diversity of the visual arts, film, theatre, literature, music and architecture; which are a window into the history, life and culture of the country. The richness of the creative arts and the astonishing creativity has triumphed in spite of the traumatic history consequently, South Africa's importance as a destination for cultural tourism is increasingly being recognized. Sites included:; Tziko Museums - Cape Town; District Six Museum; Evita Se Peron - Darling; Grahamstown the National Arts Festival and Literary Eastern Cape; The Owl House at Nieu Bethesda; Newtown, Sophiatown, Literary Johannesburg, National Gallery (Johannesburg); The Groot Marico - outside Rustenberg; Rock Art - Drakenberg, Kimberley, Cederberg, Estern Hihlands (Free-State), Blombos Cave (Western Cape); Ixopo - Cry of the Beloved Country; Jackson Hlongwane - Mpumalangha; Gamka's Kloof - Western Cape

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Based on the autobiography of Equiano, a freed and literate slave, this illustrated account plots his tragic exodus out of Africa; his terrible sea voyage; his experiences as a slave at the hands of his masters and his eventual liberation.

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Brunette, Shelley and Samantha hit the glam life of the clubs, the fashion shoots, the offers of contracts that all exist in Maputo. Their holiday holds out the promise of great things for everyone. And then there's reality.

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On a visit to South Africa in 1981, Dave spent a month with the Bushmen in the Kalahari Desert. During this visit, he felt that he had finally returned to his roots and he started formulating his theory around the use of wilderness for spiritual practice. On later trips to Peru he came into contact with shamans and these meetings made him realise that the shamans had a deep knowledge of healing, that he, in spite of his medical training, was not privy to. On subsequent trips to Zimbabwe and South Africa Dave consulted various sangomas, and through the bone readings of the sangomas it was eventually revealed to him that he had been ignoring his destiny and needed to be trained or undergo thwasa. After finding an elderly Zulu mentor, Dave began his training at the beginning of 2000. During the months in training he had to undergo cleansing practices, practice bone readings, collect his own bones, connect with his ancestors and learn how to channel through the ancestors. After months of rigorous training in very basic circumstances, he returned to California as a qualified sangoma. Here he built in his garden a hut or ndumba in honour of the ancestors. He does bone readings for patients, but he remains an allopathic physician. Through dreams and bone readings it was revealed to him that he should not give up his Western practice, and that by remaining in the Western system, he believes that he is giving more credibility to the indigenous one. The book is a fascinating account of a surgeon's odyssey into the spirit world of African healing. It is the story of his initiation as a sangoma and how his life had been changed and enriched by the experience. It includes photographs of the author's training.

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African compass -- New writing from southern Africa 2005 is the first title in a three--year series of the US $10 000 HSBC/SA PEN Literary award. The award is targeted at young writers who are citizens of any country in the SADC (Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe). The chosen genre for the series is a short story and this volume contains a selection of the best from 373 entries. The upper age limit of writers was 40, and their work had to be original, previously unpublished and written in English. The selection process maintained author anonymity; initial readers, members of the editorial board and award judge, Nobel Laureate JM Coetzee, did not know the identity of authors throughout the process. When Antonio, apprentice to Michelangelo, asked how he might emulate the master he was told: 'Draw, Antonio Draw!' We say to young people of our region: 'Write Africa Write!' There must be future 'masters' of the written word in southern Africa and this series is intended to search them out and encourage them in the early days of their careers. Some of the stories still bore the marks of the school classroom, others were obviously by seasoned hands. Some were sophisticated in style, drawing confidently on the extravagances of contemporary postcolonial fiction, others were still fully faithful to the example of Somerset Maugham.

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