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Poppie Nongena (Paperback)
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Poppie's contented childhood ends when she marries a migrant worker
and moves to the alarming world of Cape Town. No sooner has she
established her roots there than the authorities want her and her
children to go to the Ciskei, her husband's homeland. He, as a
laborer, may stay. For ten years Poppie resists the pass
laws--which lie at the heart of South Africa's legally enforced
policy of racial separation, or apartheid--winning limited
extensions to her permit to remain in the Cape. The day comes,
however, when she is forced to "resettle" in a raw, remote
township. Though this book spans the historic Sharpeville and
Soweto uprisings, it is never strident. It makes its points
dispassionately, becoming the unsentimentalized celebration of a
tenacious spirit. The woman here called Poppie--who in real life
lives in the eastern Cape area of South Africa, center of the
country's black resistance movement against apartheid--went to Elsa
Joubert for advice after the 1960s Cape Town riots. Several years
of taped conversation yielded Poppie's story, which remains in Elsa
Joubert's retelling remarkably true in tone and detail to the
firsthand account. It is Poppie's voice we hear, the inflections,
repetitions, and colloquialisms of her speech faithfully
represented.
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