A true story of courage and fortitude in the face of hardship.
A true story of courage and fortitude in the face of hardship. Houseworker and resilient Afrikaans-speaking isiXhosa mother, Poppie Nongena, desperately tries to keep her family together by navigating the day-to-day struggle against inhumane government pass laws in 1970's South Africa. Based on the celebrated novel by Elsa Joubert. in cinemas 31 January 2020. Yesterday at 04:30 ·.
Houseworker and resilient Afrikaans-speaking isiXhosa mother, Poppie Nongena, desperately tries to keep her family together by navigating the day-to-day struggle against .
Houseworker and resilient Afrikaans-speaking isiXhosa mother, Poppie Nongena, desperately tries to keep her family together by navigating the day-to-day struggle against inhumane government pass laws in 1970's South Africa. English (UK) · Русский · Українська · Suomi · Español. Whether you read the Elsa Joubert book, saw the stage production or don't know anything about the true story of the cast and director provide insight into this "incredibly human, South African story. releases in cinemas 31 Jan 2020.
Elsa Joubert grew up in Paarl and matriculated from the all-girls school La Rochelle in Paarl in 1939. She then studied at the University of Stellenbosch from which she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1942 and an SED (Secondary Education Diploma) in 1943
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Translation of: Die Swerfjare van Poppie Nongena. 1st ed. External-identifier. urn:acs6:poppienongena00joub:pdf:b06-2e7146bdac88 urn:acs6:poppienongena00joub:epub:04e-08b4d06e01eb urn:oclc:record:1036817786. Duke University Libraries. Books for People with Print Disabilities. Internet Archive Books.
Poppie Nongena – a Xhosa woman born in an Upington township – has no choice but to negotiate the riptide of structural violence that is apartheid South Africa.
Winner of the WA Hofmeyr Prize, the CNA Literary Award and the Louis Luyt Prize. A literary and commercial success when it was released in Afrikaans in 1979, Elsa Joubert's searing indictment of inhumanity remains universally relevant almost 40 years later in a world in which political dispensations continue to rise and fall.
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.
Based on the Elsa Joubert novel "The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena", regarded as one of the best African novels .
Based on the Elsa Joubert novel "The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena", regarded as one of the best African novels of the twentieth century. Poppie Nongena tells the story of a South African woman, an Afrikaans speaking Xhosa mother, whose life revolves around her family and finding stability in a period of insufferable upheaval in the country. When her husband, Stone, became too ill to work, Poppie was deemed by the law to be an "illegal" resident in her own country.
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