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The Long Journey Of Poppie Nongena (Paperback)
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The Long Journey Of Poppie Nongena (Paperback)
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Price R336
Discovery Miles 3 360
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Soon to be a major motion picture!
Poppie Nogena’s arduous journey covers 40 years of South Africa’s
history, sweeping through the riots of Sharpeville, Soweto and Cape
Town, on to an indefinite but unpromising future. The plot reflects the
brutality and injustice of the Apartheid system, while Elsa Joubert’s
characterisations reflects the courage and fortitude of people in the
face of hardship and difficulty.
Poppie’s contented childhood in the Cape’s countryside came to an end
when she married a migrant worker, and was forced by the authorities to
move with him and their young family to the unfamiliar and bewildering
city of Cape Town.
No sooner had she established her roots in the new township, when the
laws changed and she was informed of her obligation to relocate to the
Ciskei, her husband’s homeland. He, as a migrant worker, was permitted
to remain in the Cape to work.
Over a ten-year period, Poppie fought the heinous ‘pass law’ system,
winning limited extensions to the permit that would allow her to live
and work in Cape Town and enable her to keep the family together and
provide an education for her children.
Her own anger was shared by thousands and inevitably the brooding
undercurrent of discontent exploded throughout South Africa. Suddenly,
there were no further extensions. Poppie and her children were forcibly
removed from their home and ‘resettled’ in a new township, hundreds of
miles away near East London.
The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena is an epic tale of the endless
adversity and struggle of a humble black woman under Apartheid laws.
Poppie emerges from being a simple country girl to becoming an
archetypal heroine of South Africa.
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