Naidoo's collection covers a large proportion of her career and includes her PhD thesis, novels, short stories, picture books, professional and personal correspondence. so simple and straightforward that it makes accessible even to quite young children the difficult and the profound. The associations from school children, a small selection of which you can see in the above photograph, are a very interesting way to look at perceptions of South Africa. Following Nelson Mandela’s prison release in 1991, the ban on the book was finally lifted in South Africa. The book follows siblings, Naledi and her younger brother, Tiro on a journey to try and save their family.

Journey to Jo’burg by Beverley Naidoo is a fantastic, thought-provoking story about diversity, equality and acceptance. This is the notice sent to Beverley's sister-in-law from the Doeane en Aksyns Customs and Excise to inform of the seizure of prohibited material.

Naidoo found misleadingportrayalsof South Africa, racist perceptions and a very limited, one sided view of a country under apartheid law.

Printed at the beginning of the book are two newspaper articles which draw Naidoo's fiction into reality. Knowing that only their mother will be able to help her, Naledi and Tiro travel to Johannesburg to find her. To give more background on South African history, you may also want to download our The Life Story of Nelson Mandela PowerPoint.These questions alone make the differences between Tiro, Naledi and Naidoo's young British readers striking. Most of these drafts include extensive annotation, changes and significant developments which give us insight into how Naidoo works as an author. Newspaper articles from Beverley's collection with a copy of Journey to Jo'burgwhich includes two real newspaper articles at the beginning of the story. D. from the University of Southampton and worked as Adviser for Cultural Diversity and English in Dorset.