Chapter 4

Info

• page: 40-47
• place: Guguletu
• time: Wednesday 25th of August 1993 at 7.30 PM
• people: Mandisa, Siziwe, Skonana

Content

• After Madisa enters her house, she asks Siziwe about her brothers. Lunga also seems to be at home, but there is no trace of Mxolisi. He is the one Madisa has been most worried about since she heard about the attacks
• Siziwe claims not to have seen her brother Mxolisi all day. Her mother is displeased that her daughter does not seem to care about her half-brother. In Mandisa's opinion, Siziwe's lack of interest is due to the fact that they are only half-siblings
• Only a few minutes later, neighbour Skonana knocks on the door. Mandisa learns from her neighbour that the victim of the attacks is a white student. She fears the consequences of police violence and worries about the township's residents. In addition, Mandisa must also learn that the murderers of the young woman are pupils of the school in Guguletu
• Skonana also lets Mandisa know that the incident is said to have taken place in the immediate vicinity, on her street. She also informs Mxolisi's mother that the murderers stabbed the victim with a knife as the murder weapon

Chapter 5

Info

• page: 48-78
• place: Guguletu
• time: later on in the evening on Wednesday 25th of August 1993
• people: Mandisa, Skonana, Mandisas family (in her memories), Lunga, Dwadwa, Mandisas former fellow students in School (in her memories)

Content

• Mandisa, still dazed by the details of the murder, would like to say goodbye to her neighbour as quickly as possible, who can clearly see her shock
• Back at the house, Mandisa remembers her childhood in Blouvlei. Her mother was strict, but she did not punish her when she returned home late from shopping with the wrong groceries, for example. At that time, there was already talk of the government planning to move all black Africans to Cape Town, but Mandisa, as a little girl, could by no means imagine the effort that would be involved
• A few months later, Mandisa's home is burnt down and her family is forced to move to Guguletu with the rest of the black population as announced
• A few hours later, Mandisa's husband Dwadwa returns home and the mother of the three children prepares dinner. When Dwadwa asks where Mxolisi is, Mandisa is unable to answer. Although she does not approve of her son's development either, she defends him in front of her husband
• The schools, which were already overcrowded and poor in Mandisa's youth, are increasingly losing quality and safety, according to the mother of three. Mandisa does not understand why the victim's mother sends her daughter to such an area, although she must have known what a catastrophic state the schools are in
• Mandisa describes why the black citizens of Cape Town often refer to whites as "dogs": the same was said in the black community when one had once again been treated like a slave all day by one's white boss
• Mandisa then refers again to the problems of educating today's youth. She describes how successively young people became more and more aggressive and violent. For her, the level of violence culminated in the murder of a black man in Guguletu, whom they burnt alive with a tire around his neck. When asked why they were doing such a terrible thing, the children replied at the time with „we are fighting against Apartheid“.

Chapter 6

Info

• page: 79-87
• place: Guguletu
• time: Thursday 26th of August 1993, 4 AM
• people: Mandisa, Siziwe, Dwadwa, Lunga, police men

Content

• At four o'clock in the morning, the sleeping Mandisas family is woken up by police officers who force their way into the house
• The police men are looking for Mxolisi, but when they do not find him and the boy's mother is also unable to give any information about his whereabouts, they vent their anger about the murder of Lunga and Dwadwa. After beating up Mandisa's husband and Lunga, the policemen leave again