Moederland : Nine Daughters of South Africa
by
Cato Pedder
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1399810812
ISBN-13
9781399810814
Publisher
John Murray Press
Imprint
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 24th, 2025
Print length
368 Pages
Weight
278 grams
Dimensions
19.70 x 13.00 x 2.60 cms
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ONE FAMILY, FOUR CENTURIES, NINE EXTRAORDINARY LIVES
'Exploring the past, bringing it to vivid life with wonderful prose . . . Pedder writes with perspicacity and sensitivity . . . We need more books like this' Observer
'Fascinating and engrossing' Literary Review
How did South Africa turn out the way it did? In Moederland - 'Motherland', in Afrikaans - Cato Pedder takes us on an eye-opening journey across four centuries, tracing the country's turbulent past and the rise and fall of apartheid (and her family's charged legacy) through the lives of nine very different women. This brilliant and unflinching work of history begins with the arrival of the first Dutch ships and ends with South Africa's first free elections in 1994.
KROTOA is Khoikhoi translator to the newly arrived Dutch East India Company
ANGELA, a former slave from Bengal, climbs the ladder of settler society
ELSJE arrives from Germany aged 3, marries at 13, a mother at 15
ANNA, mistress of the Cape's grandest estate, regains control from her violent husband
MARGARETHA, uncompromising Afrikaner farmer, resists the abolition of slavery
ANNA loads her family on an ox-wagon and treks into the interior to elude the British
ISIE survives the Boer War to become wife of South Africa's Prime Minister and 'Mother of the Nation'
CATO escapes to England and the Quakers as white supremacy mutates into apartheid
PETRONELLA, returning to the Motherland, falls in love across the colour bar and risks everything to fight the system her grandfather set in motion.
'Fascinating and engrossing' Literary Review
How did South Africa turn out the way it did? In Moederland - 'Motherland', in Afrikaans - Cato Pedder takes us on an eye-opening journey across four centuries, tracing the country's turbulent past and the rise and fall of apartheid (and her family's charged legacy) through the lives of nine very different women. This brilliant and unflinching work of history begins with the arrival of the first Dutch ships and ends with South Africa's first free elections in 1994.
KROTOA is Khoikhoi translator to the newly arrived Dutch East India Company
ANGELA, a former slave from Bengal, climbs the ladder of settler society
ELSJE arrives from Germany aged 3, marries at 13, a mother at 15
ANNA, mistress of the Cape's grandest estate, regains control from her violent husband
MARGARETHA, uncompromising Afrikaner farmer, resists the abolition of slavery
ANNA loads her family on an ox-wagon and treks into the interior to elude the British
ISIE survives the Boer War to become wife of South Africa's Prime Minister and 'Mother of the Nation'
CATO escapes to England and the Quakers as white supremacy mutates into apartheid
PETRONELLA, returning to the Motherland, falls in love across the colour bar and risks everything to fight the system her grandfather set in motion.
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