Zama, Brian, Comfort and Gloria are all 13 or 14 years of age, as young as their country's new democracy, and have ambitions to match those of the new South Africa. They all want to go to university; then Comfort wants to be a doctor, Zama an actress, Gloria a teacher and Brian a lawyer. Children the world over dream about those sorts of jobs, so there is nothing unusual about that. But if those four and their peers do go on to realise them, they will have achieved something remarkable: it will be the first time that anyone in their families will have risen out of the degradation and poverty imposed by apartheid.
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