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‘Buckingham Palace’, District Six, is one of the most essential books ever written in this country, in a sense that it keeps alive the spirit of South Africa’s most notorious but lively slumps, alive. The book is divided into three distinct segments: morning, afternoon and night.
The mood as you will notice gets increasingly darker and serious in
each segment.

The first segment is a quite enjoyable one and gives you a wonderful introduction into each of the characters and a rundown of the everyday happenings in their lives. They are surprisingly similar to us. The boys for example go to school, like we do, participate in rugby like we do and so forth. But then again they are made of tough stuff. The writer drives this point home continuously i.e. the jungle boys sister, Moena Lelik ( as she was known, since her cousin was also named Moena but was a beauty to behold) was ridiculed not only by her school counterparts but also her teacher, her brothers make sure they gave......

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