Mark Mathabane
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Mark Mathabane grew up in a world with so little compassion in it that those of us with more fortunate fates can barely imagine how humans could survive in such a place - survive either literally or survive psychologically. But Mathabane both lived to adulthood and escaped from the slums of his youth to write about them to the world, thus proving that the sweetest revenge is to prove oneself morally better and wiser than one's enemies.Mathabane, who wrote about the world in which he grew up in his autobiography Kaffir Boy: The True Story Of A Black Youth's Coming Of Age In Apartheid South Africa, grew up what may have been the worst slum in South Africa under apartheid, a system that set blacks and those of mixed-race descent "apart" from whites, pushing blacks into the most abysmal neighborhoods, in which the only things that were plentiful were poverty and despair - and the desire that each generation has to make like a little better for the next. Even within the ghetto in which Mathabane was raised, there were racial distinctions, for apartheid South Africa was a s
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