Do not go gentle
Subtitle: a novel
By: Futhi Ntshingila
Publisher: Modjaji Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Cape Town, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
ISBN-13: 9781920590505; 9781920590765
Subjects: Grants-in-aid; South African fiction; Single mothers; Squatter settlements; Teenagers; Fiction
Notes: Life wasn't always this hard for fourteen year old Mvelo, who lives with her mother, Zola in the shacks on the margins of Mkhumbane township. There were good times when they lived with Sipho, Zola lawyer's boyfriend. But when the beautiful and mysterious Nonceba Hlathi arrives, Zola has to make a choice, she also has pride. Now their social grants have been discontinued, the one for Mvelo being underage reared by a 31 year old single mother, and the other for Zola because of her status. And there is also an elephant growing in their shack as the terrible thing that happened that night in the revival tent remains unspoken.