The Hidden Star

The Hidden StarNolitye lives in a shack with her mother Thembi in Phola, a dusty township on the edge of Johannesburg. She is good at maths and likes collecting stones, which she places in a bucket under her bed. She also has unusual powers: she can communicate with dogs. Nolitye has two close friends, Bheki, who is overweight, and the bespectacled Four Eyes, who join with her to resist the bullying from Rotten Nellie and her gang of Spoilers. One day, Nolitye finds

Heavy lies the head that wears the cowl

beneath the third rail of a long forgotten line

and ideological boundaries typically associated with the “Black Atlantic

is carrying the load both at work and at home

But what Venus is most afraid of is the dark

And things only get worse

ISBN-13 : 9780061706561

Far too often

As one unnamed farmer

who passed away on December 15

assertions of a common

the north and south of Mafia Island