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Memory is the Weapon

By: Don Mattera

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Donato Francesco Mattera has been celebrated as a journalist, editor, writer and poet. He is also acknowledged as one of the foremost activists in the struggle for a democratic South Africa, and helped to found both the Union of Black Journalists, the African Writers Association and the Congress of South African Writers. Born in 1935 in Western Native Township (now Westbury) across the road from Sophiatown, Mattera can lay claim to an intriguingly diverse lineage: his paternal grandfather was Italian, and he has Tswana, Khoi-Khoi and Xhosa blood in his veins. Yet diversity was hardly being celebrated at that time. In one of apartheids most infamous actions, the vibrant multicultural Sophiatown was destroyed in 1955 and replaced with the white suburb of Triomf, and the wrenching displacement, can be felt in Matteras writing. The story of his life in Sophiatown as told in this essay is intricate. Covering Matteras teenage years from 1948 to 1962 when Sophiatown was bulldozed out of existence, it weaves together both his personal experience and political development. In telling the story of his life as a coloured teenager, Mattera takes on the ambitious goal of making us recapture the crucial events of the 1950s in Sophiatown, one of the most important decades in the history of black political struggles in South Africa.

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African Perspectives Publishing

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0992187575

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Memory is the Weapon

By: Don Mattera

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Azanian Love Song

By: Don Mattera

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African Perspectives Publishing

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0992187567

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9780992187569

Sophiatown

Coming of Age in South Africa

By: Don Mattera

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Sophiatown

Coming of Age in South Africa

By: Don Mattera

A first-person account of the rise to political consciousness and activism of a notorious gang leader from the turbulent ghetto near Johannesburg, where blacks and whites lived side by side. [Mattera] writes powerfully of his wretched life as a wild young man, of his people's struggle for liberation and of his own conversion from violence to the use of peaceful methods. He provides a searing view of a troubled land"--Publisher's Weekly.

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Beacon Press (MA)

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0807002070

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9780807002070

Football in the South Bay

By: Don Lechman

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Football in the South Bay

By: Don Lechman

Hardly a season passes in which one or more South Bay football stars don't shine in major college or NFL play. Vince Ferragamo led the Rams to a Super Bowl, but in Wilmington, he's the pride of Banning High School. Before he was television's "Hunter" or an NFL All-Pro, Fred Dryer was an El Camino College and Lawndale High star. Wesley Walker snagged deep passes for the New York Jets but honed his skills under legendary coach Gene Vollnogle for the Carson High Colts, historically the top prep team in the South Bay. From the inspirational coaches like Mira Costa's Don Morrow and San Pedro's Mike Walsh to the greatest players raised here, author Don Lechman presents the full story of South Bay gridiron glory.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625847939

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9781625847935

Sophiatown

Coming of Age in South Africa

By: Don Mattera

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Coming of Age in South Africa

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Azanian Love Song

By: Don Mattera

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African Books Collective

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Memory is the Weapon

Memory is the Weapon

Memory is the Weapon

Memory is the Weapon

Azanian Love Song

Azanian Love Song

Sophiatown

Sophiatown

Football in the South Bay

Football in the South Bay

Sophiatown

Sophiatown

Azanian Love Song

Azanian Love Song

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