Charles Dickens’s well loved tale “A Christmas Carol” comes to life in an African context! “A Jozi Christmas Carol”, set in the present day in the heart of Jozi (the local slang for Johannesburg), tells the story of miraculous changes brought about in the life of miserly old Scrooge. Ebenezer Scrooge is a slum lord and loan shark who lives in splendour in a gloriously sumptuous Victorian mansion on the verge of the poverty and degradation of the inner city area of Hillbrow.
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