We Come from South Africa

32 pages of large print and big, big pictures introduce us to seven year old Tshepo and his family who live in Soweto. They are reasonably well off with both parents in government jobs and living in a brick bungalow with all mod cons, so we definitely get a positive view of the improving conditions for black South Africans. The old apartheid past is mentioned briefly – but that is the trouble in books like this that try to cover such a huge topic in such a short space; everything is dealt with briefly and it is the pictures that give us a much better idea of what life is like than the text. As for the Topic Web and Extension activities, any half-way competent teacher could have come up with these ideas (and better) in their sleep.