WIN: Caxton Christmas book giveaway – Day 7

Scatterling of Africa, Johnny Clegg, Pan Macmillan, ISBN: 9781770107588

DECEMBER is finally here, and the festive season is officially in full swing.

If the Christmas decorations, carols and year-end functions have not gotten you into the festive spirit yet, perhaps our Christmas book giveaway will do the trick.

Caxton Local Media, in partnership with several publishers, will be giving away six fabulous reads for the month of December.

So, keep a lookout for new competitions every day!

Fill in the competition form below to stand a chance to win the seventh book in the series.

“There are moments in life that are pure, and which seem to hang in the air, unhitched from the everyday world as we know it. Suspended for a few seconds, they float in their own space and time with their own hidden prospects. For want of a better term, we call these moments ‘magical’, and when we remember them, they are cloaked in a halo of special meaning.”

For 14-year-old Johnny Clegg, hearing Zulu street music as plucked on the strings of a guitar by Charlie Mzila one evening outside a corner café in Bellevue, Johannesburg, was one such ‘magical’ moment.

The success story of Juluka and later Savuka, and the cross-cultural celebration of music, language, story, dance and song, which stirred the hearts of millions across the world, is well documented.

Their music was the soundtrack to many South Africans’ lives during the turbulent 70s and 80s as the country moved from legislated oppression to democratic freedom. It crossed borders, boundaries and generations, resonating around the world and back again.

Less known is the story of how it all began and developed.

Scatterling of Africa is that origin story, as Johnny Clegg wrote it and wanted it told. It is the story of how the son of an unconventional mother and grandson of Jewish immigrants came to realise that identity can be a choice and home is a place you leave and return to as surely as the seasons change.

*T&C’s – *Winners will be selected by Caxton Local Newspapers. Winners will be notified telephonically in the new year. Please note that winners will have to collect their copies from the Highway Mail offices in New Germany, Pinetown (115 Escom Road) on Thursday or Friday between 08:30 and 16:30.

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