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Dog Eat Dog
by
Niq Mhlongo
Dingz is an average Wits student who spends his time partying with his friends, picking up girls, skipping lectures, making up elaborate excuses for missing exams, and struggling to make ends meet. Dingz -- a bright, articulate student -- and his circle of friends like to sit around drinking and discussing AIDS, racism, history and South African politics.They also have som...more
Paperback, 222 pages
Published
September 1st 2005
by Kwela Books
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This book was a chance find in a charity shop ('thrift shop'), and is worth far more than 5 stars!
This is a wonderful, witty, incisive, amusing story. It is set in and around Johannesburg in post-apartheid South Africa. It was, as the author Niq Mhlongo wrote, “the season of change when everyone was everyone was trying to disown apartheid.”
Dingz has attitude and chutzpah, but this won’t help him get a bursary to help pay for his studies at Wits (the University of Witwatersrand) despite coming f...more
This is a wonderful, witty, incisive, amusing story. It is set in and around Johannesburg in post-apartheid South Africa. It was, as the author Niq Mhlongo wrote, “the season of change when everyone was everyone was trying to disown apartheid.”
Dingz has attitude and chutzpah, but this won’t help him get a bursary to help pay for his studies at Wits (the University of Witwatersrand) despite coming f...more
A humorous and raucous story about a black college student in post apartheid South Africa trying to make his way through college during a very turbulent time in South Africa's history. Dog Eat Dog similar to Urban Lit in the USA in that it follows an impoverished youth through the underbelly of society (the townships in this case), but different because it follows the student as he tries to get ahead at school in anyway possible.
Though I felt the book was good, though not great, I will note tha...more
Though I felt the book was good, though not great, I will note tha...more
This book was great - a fresh kwaito voice written in a very colloquial, multilingual style, using modern South African township slang. It's a glimpse into life in modern Soweto and Jo'berg, through the eyes of a young man trying to go to college against the back drop of the 1994 elections. Africa's bizarre and ubiquitous bumper stickers (i.e "I like your perm, just not on my window") punctuate the book in an almost Greek chorus like fashion. The book is deceptively easy to read, but the author'...more
Didn't know whether to give this book 1 or 2 stars. Ended up with 2 stars because it offers a realistic glimpse into a community that I otherwise would not have been able to enter. Have not come across many other novels that make the kwaito world accessible to a Northern European. And that's one of the things I love about literature; being transferred to other worlds and being able to view this world through someone else's eyes.
For those willing to look past stylistic and grammatical errors, this is a startlingly honest and vivid look at post-apartheid South Africa. The narrator, Dingz, is witty but ultimately unlikable. He is completely a product of his environment; of both the historical South Africa and the contemporary one. The strength of this novel is not in its story, or even in its characters, but in its setting and descriptions of place.
This is an insanely funny book set in Johannesburg and takes you into the underbelly of student life for some - arguably most - South African township youth.
Niq Mhlongo, lays out township life without making it frilly and romanticizing it, just as it is. I read this too late and by mere chance, but glad I'm glad caught onto it.
Niq Mhlongo, lays out township life without making it frilly and romanticizing it, just as it is. I read this too late and by mere chance, but glad I'm glad caught onto it.
Feb 10, 2011
Sisikelelwe Tshofela
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a current and real account of South African post apartheid relations. the characters are deeply moving but hard to feel sorry for at times
It's an angsty, purely South African book from that oh so cool Kwaito generation. It takes place in Soweto, outside of Jo'berg. If you want to learn about township life in South Africa, read this. I'm a fan, but I can't really get enough Kwaito in my life!
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