BORN IN CHAINS

<p>Just like in the squatter camp in Atteridgeville there was no electricity in our new home. But here it was very different: it was safe. Only years later I figured out why the crime rate was so low in our village: there was nothing to steal.</p><p>Born in Chains is a fist-hand account of living in abject poverty in South Africa. Clinton Chauke was born in 1994 into a Vatsonga household and has faced all the challenges of growing up at the edges of society: first in rural Limpopo then in a village bordering the Kruger National Park and finally in a squatter camp near Pretoria.</p><p>Navigating a world of racism and tribalism and confronting urban life as a country ‘bumpkin’ the author depicts the lifelines and pitfalls of a young life: going to school coming to terms with tradition religion and politics becoming a man and – ultimately – finding his identity as a young black person in South Africa.</p><p>Uncompromising honest and witty Chauke’s memoir is a story of hope and perseverance and of succeeding against all the odds.</p>