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The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena
Elsa Joubert ISBN 9781868421459 Publication date 2003 RRP R 125 Although it is a work of fiction, The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena, is based on a true South African story. Elsa Joubert has been scrupulous in presenting the authentic details that give the work its substance and which resulted in a remarkable and insightful story. Her novel is a celebration of the human capacity for survival and the tenacious spirit of Poppie. The story deals closely with the effects that the apartheid regime and its cruel laws, the Cape Town riots, the forced relocation to Ciskei and the heinous pass law system had on her life. Over a ten-year period, Poppie fought against the 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 her 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: first in Sharpeville, then in Soweto and finally in the Cape. Suddenly, there were no further extensions. Poppie and her children were forcibly removed from their home and ‘resettled’ in a new and raw township, hundreds of miles away near East London. |
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