An interracial couple share how they were able to overcome their own prejudices and considerable social pressure to forge a healthy marriage and family, despite the odds. By the author of Kaffir Boy. Reprint. National ad/promo.
Mark Mathabane Book order
October 18, 1960
Mark Mathabane is an author, lecturer, and former collegiate tennis player. He touched the hearts of millions worldwide with his autobiography, "Kaffir Boy." This true coming-of-age story from apartheid South Africa was translated into several languages and became a bestseller. Mathabane's work highlights the resilience of the human spirit in the face of oppression.



- 1993
- 1986
Kaffir Boy
- 368 pages
- 13 hours of reading
Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa's most desperate ghetto. Yet Mark did what no physically and psychologically battered "Kaffir" was supposed to dohe escaped to tell about it.