A Would-Be Pilot, Hitting Turbulence on the Ground. Michael Wines.
by Wines, Michael; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 34Family. Publisher: New York Times, 2005ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): South Africa -- Economic conditions | South Africa -- Social conditions | Youth -- South AfricaDDC classification: 050 Summary: "In a part of the world where so many young people never get off the ground, 17-year-old James Mokoena wants to be a pilot. He will fly a fighter jet, but not just to wage aerial battles. Africa is full of hungry people and people sick with malaria, he said. Many of them need a James Mokoena to bring them food and medicine....He is standing outside his cement-stuccoed house, a four-room box on a dirt road in this township [Masjaing, South Africa] of about 30,000 on the Lesotho border. Inside is a single bed for him, three brothers and a sister. His mother is ill. His father never got past the sixth grade. Everything here fairly shouts that James's dream is folly." (NEW YORK TIMES) This article considers the aspirations of a young black boy trapped in "the underclass that apartheid created" and where "the townships are economic and social sinkholes, poverty traps in a nation where the rich-poor gap is among the widest on earth."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: A Would-Be Pilot, Hitting Turbulence on the Ground, April 30, 2005; pp. A4.
"In a part of the world where so many young people never get off the ground, 17-year-old James Mokoena wants to be a pilot. He will fly a fighter jet, but not just to wage aerial battles. Africa is full of hungry people and people sick with malaria, he said. Many of them need a James Mokoena to bring them food and medicine....He is standing outside his cement-stuccoed house, a four-room box on a dirt road in this township [Masjaing, South Africa] of about 30,000 on the Lesotho border. Inside is a single bed for him, three brothers and a sister. His mother is ill. His father never got past the sixth grade. Everything here fairly shouts that James's dream is folly." (NEW YORK TIMES) This article considers the aspirations of a young black boy trapped in "the underclass that apartheid created" and where "the townships are economic and social sinkholes, poverty traps in a nation where the rich-poor gap is among the widest on earth."
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