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          Kaffir Boy

          1986 autobiography by Mark Mathabane

          AuthorMark Mathabane
          GenreAutobiography
          PublisherMacmillan

          Publication date

          		1986
          Media typePrint

          Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa is Mark Mathabane's 1986 autobiography about life under the South Africanapartheid regime.

          It focuses on the brutality of the apartheid system and how he escaped from it, and from the township Alexandra, to become a well-known tennis player. He also depicted how the young black children dealt with racism and stereotypes.

          Mark Mathabane (born Johannes Mathabane, 18 October ) is a South African author, lecturer, and a former collegiate tennis player and college professor.

          By embracing education, he is able to rise out of despair and destitution.

          Plot summary

          At his mother's insistence, Mathabane starts school and learns to love it, rising to the top of his class in spite of frequent punishments due to his family's late payments for school fees and inability to afford school supplies.

          He graduates from primary school with a scholarship that will pay for his