The timeline below shows where the term Hokkie appears in Mother to Mother. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 6: 4 a.m. – Thursday 26 August 1993
The police continue to dismantle the house. They destroy the hokkie where Mxolisi and Lunga slept, look in the rafters, in closets, and under beds. As...
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Chapter 8
...duties around the house but after six months is fed up, and so rents a hokkie for herself and Mxolisi, a home she describes as a “hokkie of my own.”
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...at four years old. He is playing at the big house whose yard houses Mandisa’s hokkie. He often plays with the teenage boys, Zazi and Mzamo, who live in the house....
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One day Nono visits Mandisa in her hokkie. Nono has returned to school and is busy, but has made time for her old...
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Chapter 9: 6 a.m. – Thursday 26 August
...saw Mxolisi the previous day; he ran into the house and hid something in the hokkie. Siziwe has a “cagey” look, and won’t tell Mandisa any more details.
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