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"Life wasn’t always this hard for fourteen-year-old Mvelo, who lives with her mother, Zola in the shacks on the margins of Mkhumbane township. There were good times when they lived with Sipho, Zola’s lawyer boyfriend. But when the beautiful and mysterious Nonceba Hlathi arrives, Zola has to make a choice. She also has her pride. Now their social grants have been discontinued: the one for Mvelo being underage reared by a 31-year-old single mother, and the other for Zola because of her status. And there is also an elephant growing in their shack as the terrible thing that happened that night in the revival tent remains unspoken."
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Novel, Squatter settlements, Fiction, Teenagers, Grants-in-aid, Single mothers, South African fictionPlaces
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Life wasn't always this hard for fourteen year old Mvelo, who lives with her mother, Zola in the shacks on the margins of Mkhumbane township. There were good times when they lived with Sipho, Zola lawyer's boyfriend. But when the beautiful and mysterious Nonceba Hlathi arrives, Zola has to make a choice, she also has pride. Now their social grants have been discontinued, the one for Mvelo being underage reared by a 31 year old single mother, and the other for Zola because of her status. And there is also an elephant growing in their shack as the terrible thing that happened that night in the revival tent remains unspoken.
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December 21, 2022 | Edited by MARC Bot | import existing book |
August 27, 2015 | Edited by Ralph Twain | Added new cover |
August 27, 2015 | Edited by Ralph Twain | Description of work |
August 27, 2015 | Created by Ralph Twain | Added new book. |