These things really do happen to me
By: Khaya Dlanga
Publisher: Pan Macmillan South Africa; Pan MacMillan; Pan Macmillan SA
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Northlands, Johannesburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781770106314
Subjects: Businesspeople; Biography; Anecdotes
Description: "Sometimes real life is stranger than fiction. That certainly is the case when considering the things that happen to Khaya Dlanga in the course of his everyday life. Khaya often shares these stories in brief via Instagram or his other social media platforms."--Publisher's description.
Table of contents: title: Introducation; title: The shining vaseline blue seal kid; title: My birthday is always weird; title: My father, the absent; title: Cars in the village; title: Snitching on my mom to get out of trouble; title: The cows, the kraal and leadership; title: When the village snows; title: My mother and feminism; title: That time my granddad caught my uncle in the middle of a sexcapade; title: Sunday morning in my village; title: The horse I had to chase for three hours; title: How my principal dealt with a white boy who called me kaffir; title: A list for my mother; title: Third-world pelvic thrusts and arches; title: Chris Hani and my mother; title: My brief career as a pageant boy; title: My tragic but hilarious Valentine's Day; title: Vimba; title: The pregnancy (not mine); title: I learnt vocabulary, drama and geography by watching WWF; title: My brown school shoes and school suspension; title: My first kiss - posterchild of gwababa; title: My matric dance and gwababa 2.0; title: Hiding my dreadlocks from my mother; title: What labola is and isn't; title: My Madiba drawing; title: The toddler who was left alone; title: When I was Jesus-zoned; title: If you want to be happy, don't resent the people who are; title: 'You can't date him because he is black; title: A pastor and the 'Thong Song'; title: When I was 21; title: The war for Sam's cellphone number; title: Why is the system designed to deprive me for being born in poverty; title: A retrenchment and an unexpected job offer; title: When I got hit on by a girl who couldn't hear; title: The greatest pick-up line; title: To be black often means to be doubted; title: Lisa, ndifuna ukulala nawe; title: A crush and a death; title: You are already someone; title: You have wi-fi on the highway in Africa?; title: The sister I met once; title: A heartbreakingly cold moment between a father and son; title: Assuming the best; title: My grandfather and his siter; title: Empathy costs nothing; title: When I fell asleep next to Thabo Mbeki; title: My friend, the Facebook novice; title: Talking about a race is not controversial; title: When I introduced Paul Kagame as the president of Nigeria - to his face; title: Sometimes an innocent thing may not come across as innocent; title: Lunch with Xolisa and William Shatner (aka Denny Crane); title: Keeping my composure around Cassper; title: I believe the children are the future; title: My thoughts on relationships; title: Lyrical thesis; title: Men holding hands; title: When my friend paid R50k to have lunch with me; title: How to take a break from being worked to death at home; title: A man offers a woman a job, then hits on her; title: Act my personality, not my age; title: When my tyre burst in a dark, dingy place; title: Instant reply; title: Bosso ke mang?; title: Everybody knows Zodwa Wabantu; title: Im defence of small talk; title: An American being an American in America; title: The challenges black professionals face in the workplace; title: What I have learnt.