Sizwe's Test (Hardcover)

At The Age Of Twenty-nine, Sizwe Magadla Is Among The Most Handsome, Well-educated, And Richest Of The Men In His Poverty-stricken Village. Dr. Hermann Reuter, A Son Of Old South West African Stock, Wants To Show The World That If You Provide Decent Treatment, People Will Come And Get It, No Matter Their Circumstances. Sizwe And Hermann Live At The Epicentre Of The Greatest Plague Of Our Times, The African Aids Epidemic. In South Africa Alone, Nearly 6 Million People In A Population Of 46 Million Are Hiv Positive. Already, Sizwe Has Watched Several Neighbours Grow Ill And Die, Yet He Himself Has Pushed Aids To The Margins Of His Life And Associates It Obliquely With Other People's Envy, With Comeuppance, And With Misfortune. When Hermann Reuter Establishes An Antiretroviral Treatment Program In Sizwe's District And Sizwe Discovers That Close Family Members Have The Virus, The Antagonism Between These Two Figures From Very Different Worlds - One Afraid That People Will Turn Their Backs On Medical Care, The Other Fearful Of The Advent Of A World In Which Respect For Traditional Ways Has Been Lost And Privacy Has Been Obliterated - Mirrors A Continent-wide Battle Against An Epidemic That Has Corrupted Souls As Much As Bodies. A Heartbreaking Tale Of Shame And Pride, Sex And Death, And A Continent's Battle With Its Demons, Steinberg's Searing Account Is A Tour-de-force Of Literary Journalism.--jacket. Sizwe 11 -- Ithanga 16 -- Sizwe And Jake 22 -- Testing Day 29 -- His Father's Child 35 -- A Mother's Boys 40 -- Igqira 44 -- A Grandson 50 -- A Gangster 54 -- Another Shop 64 -- Thandeka 71 -- Garden And Home 79 -- Magic Pills 90 -- On The Outer Edge 104 -- The Fence Around Aids 119 -- Kate Marrandi 134 -- Aids Needle 146 -- Voting Day 163 -- Nomvalo 167 -- Testing Day 184 -- Support Group 199 -- Ithanga's Kate 210 -- Mabalane 218 -- Nombulelo 226 -- Sizwe And Nwabisa 235 -- Of Oxen And Men 242 -- Progeny 253 -- Leaving 262 -- Good-bye, Dr. Hermann 272 -- New Year 277 -- Sizwe Magadla 287 -- Sizwe And Hermann 309. Jonny Steinberg. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [329]-334) And Index. Hardcover. English. Simon & Schuster. 2008. ISBN: 9781416552697. 368 pp. Good with dw. Book No: 2003241