Sizwe's Test A Young Man's Journey Through Africa's AIDS Epidemic

Name: Sizwe's Test A Young Man's Journey Through Africa's AIDS Epidemic
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ISBN: 9781416552703

ISBN-10: 1416552707

ISBN-13: 9781416552703

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jonny Steinberg

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At the age of twenty-nine, Sizwe Magadla is among the most handsome, well-educated, and richest of the men in his poverty-stricken village. Dr. Hermann Reuter, a son of old South West African stock, wants to show the world that if you provide decent treatment, people will come and get it, no matter their circumstances. Sizwe and Hermann live at the epicenter of the greatest plague of our times, the African AIDS epidemic. In South Africa alone, nearly 6 million people in a population of 46 million are HIV-positive. Already, Sizwe has watched several neighbors grow ill and die, yet he himself has pushed AIDS to the margins of his life and associates it obliquely with other people's envy, with…

Book details

List price: $22.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 10/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.44" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Jonny Steinberg was born in South Africa. He is the author of several critically acclaimed books, including Midlands and The Number, which both won the Sunday Times Alan Paton Prize (South Africa's premier non-fiction literary award). He is currently a lecturer in African Studies and Criminology at the University of Oxford.



A Note on Terminology and Names


List of Illustrations


Preface



Sizwe


Ithanga


Sizwe and Jake


Testing Day


His Father's Child


A Mother's Boys


Igqira


A Grandson


A Gangster


Another Shop


Thandeka



Garden and Home


Magic Pills


On the Outer Edge


The Fence Around AIDSKate Marrandi


AIDS Needle


Voting Day


Nomvalo


Testing Day


Support Group


Ithanga's Kate


Mabalane


Nombulelo



Sizwe and Nwabisa


Of Oxen and Men


Progeny


Leaving


Good-Bye, Dr. Hermann


New Year""Sizwe Magadla""Sizwe and Hermann


Epilogue


Notes


Further Reading


Acknowledgments


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