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In post-apartheid South Africa Ms Scotts personal quest to come to terms with her choices reflects experiences that are reality for many and whose journey to redemption and closure with incarceration reflects the complexities that underpin unique, resilient South Africans such as the author. What a great read though I picked up a few spelling errors in the book but nevertheless I really enjoyed reading this book and because it's a local author I enjoyed it the most as I could relate to the familiarity of certain places like Khayelitsha which is my hometown, Pollsmoor prison which is the famous prison in cape town that I had once been to visit a prisoner and Gugulethu is also one of old first township to be established in Cape Town.
I found this book at a public library and somehow, I started reading from the middle….iyhooo from where the husband was sleeping with his own daughter, having sex with the maid as well and how the family swept this under the carpet as a result he was not arrested.
Life has been a roller-coaster ride filled with potholes for Nomonde Scott. It is an innovative and inspiring exhibition of emotions and experiences to be learnt from the author's life. At the conclusion of the personal narrated events by the author one must, Look before You Leap.
Mahmoud Patel
Lecturer, Department of English (UWC)
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The text is accessible and allows readers from different classes in society to engage with the text and reflect on the author's eventual triumph over adversity together with responsibility for one's action coupled with accountability and justice.Then as I move towards the end I read “I was in prison” how a well-established prosecutor be in prison?
That right there captured me and made read the book from the start to the end.
The title of the book literally means Think before you Do and is an autobiography of Nomonde Scott. Her story is worth telling and has a prospect of ensuring that those in power understand that nobody is above the law therefore, they must refrain from any involvement in corruption and any criminal activity.
The book unequivocally gives an account of her experiences in life and which may have led to the commission of crime.
She was the first African lady public prosecutor in the Western Cape and the first public prosecutor in South African history to have sent offenders to prison, followed them and shared a cell with them. At the conclusion of the personal narrated events by the author one must, Look before You Leap.
Mahmoud Patel
Lecturer, Department of English (UWC)
Look Before You Leap
The text is accessible and allows readers from different classes in society to engage with the text and reflect on the author’s eventual triumph over adversity together with responsibility for one’s action coupled with accountability and justice. In the same breath, it explores her trials and tribulations in life generally.
Look before You Leap by Nomonde C Scott evokes in the reader a tumultuous journey of the struggle to come to terms with the harsh realties of the South African penal system.
Her story is worth telling and has a prospect of ensuring that those in power understand that nobody is above the law therefore, they must refrain from any involvement in corruption and any criminal activity.
The book unequivocally gives an account of her experiences in life and which may have led to the commission of crime.
The author endured allot of misfortune and I like how she never blamed anyone but immediately took ownership of her actions.
In the same breath, it explores her trials and tribulations in life generally.
Look before You Leap by Nomonde C Scott evokes in the reader a tumultuous journey of the struggle to come to terms with the harsh realties of the South African penal system. It is an innovative and inspiring exhibition of emotions and experiences to be learnt from the author’s life.
In post-apartheid South Africa Ms Scotts personal quest to come to terms with her choices reflects experiences that are reality for many and whose journey to redemption and closure with incarceration reflects the complexities that underpin unique, resilient South Africans such as the author. Life has been a roller-coaster ride filled with potholes for Nomonde Scott.
It has been painstakingly written to afford the reader an opportunity to do introspection into his/her own life and guard against any frivolous pursuits that may advertently or inadvertently subject him/her to unforeseen and painful ramifications of his/her actions.
This is the life of a woman coming from humble beginnings and brought up by noble parents who were devout Christians.