STEERING BY THE STARS by Mamphela Ramphele

Sixteen teenagers grew up in New Crossroads, Cape Town, in the 1990s. A decade later they find themselves in markedly different circumstances. Bulelwa is a self-confident young woman with a good career, Bulelani is completing a tertiary education. But Phalo has been killed in a gang fight and most of the others are unemployed. What has made the difference?

As someone who herself rose from straitened beginnings to achieve great success, Mamphela Ramphele has a passionate interest in our young people, the risks they face and the strategies they choose to overcome them. Here, she allows the youths to speak for themselves - what emerges is the raw truth  about being young and black in urban South Africa.

Soft cover, good condition.