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Perdition and promise in South Africa
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1994 symbolised the triumphal defeat of almost three and a half centuries of racial separation since the Dutch East India Company planted a bitter almond hedge to keep indigenous people out of ‘their’ Cape outpost in 1659. But for the majority of people in the world’s most unequal society, the taste of bitter almonds linger as their exclusion from a dignified life remain the rule. In the year of South Africa’s troubled coming-of-age, veteran investigative journalist Michael Schmidt brings to bear 21 years of his scribbled field notes to weave a tapestry of the view from below: here in the demi-monde of our transition from autocracy to democracy, in the half-light glow of the rusted rainbow, you will meet neo-Nazis and the newly dispossessed, Boers and Bushmen, black illegal coal miners and a bank robber, witches and wastrels, love children and land claimants. With their feet in the mud, the Born Free youth have their eyes on the stars.

Author Biography:

Michael Schmidt is a veteran investigative journalist with a reputation for producing unique and challenging copy. He is founder of the Professional Journalists' Association of South Africa.
Release date NZ
November 1st, 2015
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Pages
288
Dimensions
148x210x18
ISBN-13
9781928246060
Product ID
25002804

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