In this powerful account of growing up black in South Africa, a young writer makes us feel intensely the horrors of apartheid. Living illegally in a shanty outside Johannesburg, Johannes (renamed Mark ...

Winds gust across the field at the Lincoln High School track, and dark, swollen clouds passing over the West Hills portend rain. Boru Guyota gazes upon the empty space in front of him. His lungs burn ...

In its third decade of honoring the nation's best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company, in partnership with RISE Magazine, today announced Nathan Mathabane of Lincoln High School as its 2007-08 ...

South African writer Mark Mathabane, author of the best-selling autobiography "Kaffir Boy," will discuss his new novel, "The Proud Liberal," at 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 8, at the Carl A. Fields Center for ...

Five weeks after his book "Kaffir Boy" was abruptly removed from eighth-grade classrooms in Burlingame, author Mark Mathabane visited the students on Tuesday to talk about hard choices of all kinds.

When he was 10, Mark Mathabane watched a man being hacked to death in a neighbor`s back yard. His childhood was spent in the South African township of Alexandra, dodging police raids, eating leeches ...

Mark Mathabane, whose best-selling book Kaffir Boy detailed his growing up black in apartheid-era South Africa, speaks at Bates College at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 28, in the Muskie Archives, 70 ...

When Mark Mathabane was growing up in South Africa, the apartheid government forbade the reading of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Now, 40 years later, San Luis Obispo High School is ...

BURLINGAME — The scene that got “Kaffir Boy” yanked from the desks of roughly 100 Burlingame middle school students describes what happened when a starving 7-year-old child in apartheid South Africa ...

News of possible book banning in South Africa makes commentator Mark Mathabane remember a time when he was willing to risk his life to save Shakespeare. At the time, 1976, it was blacks who believed ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Mark Mathabane is with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1993 Congressional News Conference. Mark Mathabane talked about his book, Miriam’s ...