Not Too Long Ago
By Fatima Khakie
Review by Naazneen Ayob


This is an awesome book for young children in which they can gain a little insight about apartheid. “Not Too Long Ago” takes place in the house of a young girl, Fatima and her parents. Fatima, seems very eager and keen to learn about the past-apartheid. Fatima’s mother tells her that her father is gone for a Vaal Hearings meeting so she inquires from her father as to what the Vaal Hearings and TRC (Truth and reconciliation commission) is all about. She is told about the details of apartheid and the hardships that many people including her parents had experienced. She is grateful that now, people of different races can live together and apartheid has been demolished.
The author captures the mood of the reader In this remarkable story and enlightens many of the young readers in this splendid story on apartheid in which they can relate to and understand.
A well written story- A real inspiration!