Wines, Michael, <br/><br/>
A Would-Be Pilot, Hitting Turbulence on the Ground. 
Michael Wines. 
 -  New York Times,  2005. 
 - SIRS Enduring Issues 2006.  Article 34,  Family,  1522-3213; .
<br/><br/> Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006.  Originally Published: A Would-Be Pilot, Hitting Turbulence on the Ground, April 30, 2005; pp. A4. 
<br/><br/> "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." 
<br/><br/><label>ISSN: </label>1522-3213; 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Youth--South Africa
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>South Africa--Economic conditions<br/>South Africa--Social conditions
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>AC1.S5 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>050