Poppie Nongena

Name: Poppie Nongena
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ISBN: 9780393334319

ISBN-10: 0393334317

ISBN-13: 9780393334319

Edition: N/A

Authors: Elsa Joubert

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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…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/1/1980
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.63" wide x 8.46" long x 0.95" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English