FOR PEOPLE EB
About this book
A small town's struggle for freedom against apartheid
'They call her Nobantu.
I call her mother.'
Anelia Schutte grew up in Knysna – a beautiful town on the coast of South Africa centred around a picturesque lagoon and popular with tourists.
But there was another side to Knysna. In the hills surrounding the town, with its exclusively white population, lay the squatter camps where black people were forced to live.
Most white children would never venture over the other side of the hill, but Anelia did. As a young child in the 1980s, she often went there with her mother – a social worker who served Knysna's black community and found herself swept up in their struggle.
Thirty years later, Anelia returns to Knysna to uncover the stories of a town that was torn apart by apartheid, and her mother's tireless work during the political unrest that clouded the country at the time.
They called her Nobantu: 'for the people'.
An exploration of apartheid told through the struggle for freedom by one small town in the Western Cape of South Africa.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Blurb
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Author Bio
- Dedication
- Author’s note
- Prologue 1984
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Going home
- Chapter 2: Back to my childhood
- Chapter 3: 1970
- Chapter 4: Digging
- Chapter 5: 1970–1
- Chapter 6: Colourful stories
- Chapter 7: Xenophobia
- Chapter 8: 1972
- Chapter 9: Jack and Piet
- Chapter 10: 1972
- Chapter 11: 1972–8
- Chapter 12: Queenie
- Chapter 13: The funeral
- Chapter 14: 1978–82
- Chapter 15: 1982
- Chapter 16: Township tour
- Chapter 17: 1982
- Chapter 18: Mrs Burger
- Chapter 19: 1983
- Chapter 20: Crèche tour
- Chapter 21: 1983
- Chapter 22: 1983
- Chapter 23: Oupad
- Chapter 24: Tembelitsha
- Chapter 25: 1983
- Chapter 26: Theron
- Chapter 27: 1983
- Chapter 28: Memories of apartheid
- Chapter 29: 1983
- Chapter 30: Johnny
- Chapter 31: 1984
- Chapter 32: 1986
- Chapter 33: Lois Bubb
- Chapter 34: 1986
- Chapter 35: Amy Matungana
- Chapter 36: Trouble
- Chapter 37: Esther Xokiso
- Chapter 38: 1986
- Chapter 39: David Ngxale
- Chapter 40: Lawrence Oliver
- Chapter 41: 1986
- Chapter 42: 1986
- Chapter 43: Tapped
- Chapter 44: 1986
- Chapter 45: Elizabeth Koti
- Chapter 46: 1987
- Chapter 47: 1987–8
- Chapter 48: Winile Joyi
- Chapter 49: 1988
- Chapter 50: Goodbyes
- Epilogue 1994
- Acknowledgements
