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Moederland - Nine Daughters of South Africa (Paperback)
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Moederland - Nine Daughters of South Africa (Paperback)
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Loot Price R420
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A fascinating, unflinching and forensic work of non-fiction by Cato
Pedder, the great-grand daughter of Jan Smuts, the South African prime
minister responsible for heralding the age of apartheid.
Moederland is a courageous and modern appraisal of what it means to be
descended from the people who created the ultra-racist apartheid system
in South Africa. Illuminating its turbulent history through the lives
of her female ancestors, it is a history of South Africa like no other,
told from the perspective of women long silenced in the historical
narrative.
It asks, what were they doing while white supremacy was constructed?
In Moederland, Cato Pedder travels the centuries from the 1600s, when
Cape Town was a remote outpost of the Dutch East India Company, to the
kraal of a Zulu king in the 1800s before doubling back to Europe and
then culminating with the English Quaker aunt who defies apartheid to
marry across the colour line. As anti-racist campaigners call out the
statue of Jan Smuts in Parliament Square, Cato painstakingly excavates
the longforgotten life stories of the women of her prehistory,
unpacking the legacy of her Afrikaans heritage and bringing their
collective shame into the light.
Moederland brilliantly sits at the borderline between personal history
and memoir and shares themes with The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de
Waal, The Wife's Tale by Aida Edemariam and Maybe Esther by Katja
Petrowskaja, both of which use unknown
forebears to throw new light on the troubled past. It will also appeal
to readers of Damon Galgut's Booker Prize winning novel, The Promise.
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