Song for Sarah

In this, Jansen’s most personal and intimate book to date, South Africa’s beloved Professor contemplates the stereotypes and stigma so readily applied to Cape Flats mothers as bawdy, lusty and gap-toothed – and offers this endearing antidote as a praise song to mothers everywhere who raise families and build communities in difficult places.As a young man, Jansen questioned how mothers managed to raise children in trying circumstances – and then realised that the answer was right in front of him