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Tomas and Anneke are tourists who come to stay at Makhulu's bed and breakfast. They are really enjoying their stay until Tomas loses his wallet! Where could it have gone? They search everywhere for it. Lindiwe wants to help but everyone says she's too young and she'll just get in the way. How does Lindiwe become the hero who saves the day?

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A famous Indian choreographer comes calling at the Siyagruva Scene. Three new dancers join the group, and cause some ripples. Regan is forced to admit something he's kept quiet about for a long time. Thabiso finds a soul mate. And a whole new world opens up for Raymondo.

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The novel traces close community of District Six through its moments of triumph and despair, its loves, its hatreds- and its bizarre characters. In 1966 parts of District Six were declared for white occupation only, in terms of South Africa's notorious Group Areas Act. The inhabitants were forced to leave for the bleak wastelands of the Cape Flats.

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An engaging approach to stimulating curiousity in small children.

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In "High Heels and Hijack", of course, Shelley knows better than her mother! Or - does she? Tonight is a big night for her - but it could end in disaster. Nothing gets Thabiso down! But, what happens on the night he's not in his wheelchair? Can his wits pull him through? 'Young people deal with hate, jealousy, friendship and danger every day - and comedy!'

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The Siyagruvaers go dancing the length and breadth of Namibia. That's the definition of paradise, right? So why are there hassles? What's with Mncedisi? Why's Brunette suddenly off-centre? And what's up with Thabiso, of all people?

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Talks about a nationwide competition to find some young dance idols! Who's going to enter, who's going to pull out, and why? And who's the least likely person in the Siyagruva Scene to win it? This is a Siyagruva story.

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Thabiso never talks about his accident - can't he face up to it? Rashaad may be accepting what he is sexually, but what is he socially? He tries a few experiments. Regan is caught between his old gang life and the movie world!

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Manyano School was a scary place, no kidding. The fence had holes big enough for a grown man to run through. And grown men did. The walls of the buildings were thirsty for paint. The buildings themselves looked scared. The schoolyard was full of weeds and rubbish: broken bottles, out-of-shape cans, skins from long-ago-eaten bananas, mango pips and things you could no longer tell what they had been before they all came and got vrot there. We never played in our schoolyard. Too scared of what might happen. And a lot happened in that yard ...and most of it wasn't nice stuff. Until ...

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Proverbs from various African countries, arranged according to theme.

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This is the story of a small black boy and his indomitable white mother's courageous battle against Aids. Nkosi's biological mother was dying when Gail Johnson took the two-year-old into her home. We are shown a moving portrait of a fight that is both intensely personal - as mother and son work to keep Nkosi's ailing immune system from collapsing - and regrettably political, as they engage government policy and the ignorance of a sector of their community. Nkosi has become an international icon on issues related to HIV/Aids and children's rights. He was posthumously awarded The World's Children's Prize for the Rights of Children - commonly referred to as 'The Children's Nobel Prize'.

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