Postcards from Soweto

"Postcards from Soweto is a memoir of sorts. In a series of postcard-sized vignettes, Molete relates anecdotes from “back in the day” - when he could get away with just about anything, except Mama’s wrath. The beauty of this memoir is that it charts not only the author’s youth - the beatings, the friends, the girls - but also the growth of a township called Soweto. At times amusing, and at other times unsettling, each tale is densely atmospheric. The epsiodes are offered up to the reader, not to be judged, but to be accepted as “the way things were”. Accurately rendered, with details of language, popular culture and place, Postcards from Soweto will transport you in your imagination to a setting mingled with the tinge of memory and nostlgia, like a photograph in sepia on an old postcard. Given the recent interest in the era of Drum magazine, Postcards from Soweto is a must for those with a nostalgic soft spot for days gone by - even if they do come from a self-described "middle-aged hack"!" -- Publisher.