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I read this book with my year 5 class in a multicultural school, who were shocked and amazed that such discrimination against people based on race happened so recently.
While this short little novel was an interesting peak into living conditions in South Africa, I found it to be a little didactic.Their mother is able to get time off, beginning the next day, to take her children home and help Dineo. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (French former tennis player) has no apparent relation to South Africa (I think I assumed he had).
They discover it is not a simple journey as they encounter some of the dangers living in their apartheid but meeting some friendly people along the way help them to reach their mother. The physical journey is symbolic of their awakening to the wider realities of apartheid; they face danger and experience prejudice, but also meet kind strangers who help to keep them safe and tell them stories about the uprising of students in Soweto. I read this to a year 6 class and they really enjoyed it, interested in exploring the history and learning about the issues that faced South Africa.
The gripping and empathetic story will draw pupils into engaging imaginatively with what life would have been like for families living during this time of racial segregation. In a no name village, two children aged 13 and 9 decide to go to Jo'burg to bring their mother home - the only person able to maybe save their little sister, severely sick for several days.
It could be used to link to PSHE or Citizenship to address bullying and racism, History to examine the apartheid and Geography for studying Africa. Their little sister is desperately ill and the two children decide to walk to the city to bring their mother home. What makes this book an international piece of literature is that it is about another country, South Africa, written and published in English.This was a brilliant read and a great introduction to children in KS2 about life in South Africa for black people, the Apartheid and segregation. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook).
To develop the children's understanding further, children could take part in a hot seating activity to explore the characters in depth and to gain a full perspective of living in South Africa around this time. She married a man from Indian descent: their union would have been ”a crime” under the apartheid laws (I'm guessing like Trevor Noah's parents'). Two kids see their little sister getting very ill but the lady who cares for them doesn't have money for a hospital.
I stopped and went on Wikipedia (my go-to source on almost everything) to see what the deal with Jo'burg is (it is Johannesburg indeed! Thirteen-year-old Naledi lives with Nono (her grandmother), Tiro (her brother), and Dineo (her baby sister) in a small South African village 300 kilometers from Johannesburg. In a social studies or history class, Journey to Jo’Burg could be used to compare and contrast the history of South Africa with that of the U.
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