Poppie

Joubert, Elsa

Literature & Fiction

Hodder and Stoughton

Poppie (Coronet Books)

Jonathan Ball

<p>The account of the life and times of a Black South African woman, her marriage, her resistance to the pass laws, and her enforced resettlement in a remote township spans the troubled years of Sharpeville and Soweto</p>

Poppie Nongena (English and Afrikaans Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

This is the story of one woman's struggle to keep a family together in the teeth of a system that makes life a series of uprootings. For Poppie Nongena is black and lives in present-day South Africa.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.

Poppie Nongena

W.W.Norton&Company

Swerfjare Van Poppie Nongena

Contemporary

Tafelberg Publishers

The Four Friends

Missionaris: Roman (Afrikaans Edition)

Tafelberg-Uitgewers Bpk

Die reise van Isobelle (Afrikaans Edition)

Tafelberg

Die jare 1894 tot 1994 is vir die Afrikaner 'n tydperk van grootse maar veral pynlike gebeure. 'n Gewone Suid-Afrikaanse familie beleef in hierdie roman die Anglo-Boereoorlog, die Eerste Wêreldoorlog, die 1914-Rebellie en vele meer.

Reise van Isobelle (Afrikaans Edition)

Poppie Nongena: One Woman's Struggle Against Apartheid (English and Afrikaans Edition)

Henry Holt Co.

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