Reading Matters is a well-loved collection, which challenges and inspires readers from all walks of life. Contributors include young South Africans and well-known local and international writers.

 

There are 120 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 by Cambridge University Press .

This book has the following chapters: Foreward; Extract from 'Weep not, child' by Ngugi wa Thiong'o; The schoolgirl by Mbuso Thabethe; The strap box flyer by Paul Jennings; Blue lightning by Pratima Mitchell; Gift by Susan Gates; Did you ever? by Melissa Meyer; The guest in your house - Tanzania - traditional; Learning to smoke - an extract from 'the house in Tyne Street - Childhood memories of District Six' by Linda Fortune; Guilty conscience by Rodney Sivyour; Swimming by Ernest Matlala; Give us a job by Richard Brown; Basketball by Spiros Kalligeris; Soccer by Pattmore Dotiro; The lonely fisherman by Grace Hallworth; The paper aeroplane by Cat Macbeth; Life in our village by Matei markwei; the mesh by Kwesi Brew; Being-in-love by Roger McGough; If this is love, I'll take spaghetti by Ellen Conford; 'God she's fat' by Mikaela Spierings; An extract from 'The calling of Katie Makanya' by Margaret McCord; Bring the cattle home by the Rishile poets; A new South Africa by Grade 8, King's School; My new home by Vieng; Interview with Willie Bester, artist by Dorothy Dyer; Enjoy the earth gently - Oral tradition, Yoruba; The most beautiful song in the forest by Rosalind Kerven, from traditional Mbuti Pygmy, Democratic Republic of Congo; The trouble with taxis by Grade 8, Pietrmaritzburg Girls' High School; Sophiatowners by Can Themba; Fighting back by Helen Brain; Ostrich - Traditional Khoi; Animal proverbs; Graffiti on trains by Rhoda Davids; I hate that stuff by Kristina Siciliano.