Khayelitsha : uMlungu in a township

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Title:

Author:

Otter, Steven.

ISBN:

9780143025474

Personal Author:

Otter, Steven.

Publication Information:

Johannesburg, South Africa ; New York : Penguin, 2007.

Physical Description:

294 pages, [12] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 20 cm

Abstract:

Explores what it is like to be a white man living in Khayelitsha, a black township outside Cape Town. Provides an unusual perspective on, and insight into, a predominantly Xhosa community and their reaction to an "umlungu" in their midst.

Subject Term:

Squatter settlements -- South Africa -- Cape Town.

Blacks -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- Social conditions.

Whites -- South Africa -- Cape Town.

Blacks -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00834005

Social conditions (OCoLC)fst01919811

Squatter settlements. (OCoLC)fst01131111

Whites. (OCoLC)fst01174816

Geographic Term:

Khayelitsha (Cape Town, South Africa) -- Social conditions.

South Africa -- Cape Town. (OCoLC)fst01204844

South Africa -- Khayelitsha (Cape Town) (OCoLC)fst01758841

Khayelitsha.

Kapstadt.

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Library	Material Type	Item Barcode	Shelf Number	Copy	Status
Searching... VC Cape Town	General Books	000026009	OTT	1	Searching... Unknown
Searching... VC Durban North	General Books	000021895	OTT	1	Searching... Unknown
Searching... VEGA Cape Town	General Books	000039931	OTT	1	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

Ignoring advice from his white friends, and to the bemusement of his black friends, Steven Otter throws caution to the wind and moves into Khayelitsha, a black township outside Cape Town.