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Recommended Books about the Eastern Cape and its people
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| A Literary Guide to the Eastern Cape byJeanette Eve and Basil Mills The Eastern Cape is a province of natural beauty, historical interest and tourist potential and it has evoked a wealth of literary responses. This book includes poems and prose extracts from imaginative and personal writings and introduces some 80 writers from different eras and backgrounds. Material is arranged regionally, allowing one to travel by car or in the mind across the varied terrain of the Eastern Cape, learning about cities, towns, coast and countryside, and discovering the light and dark sides of places through writers' eyes. There are also maps included. |
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| Women, Development and Transport in Rural Eastern Cape by Cheryl-Ann Potgieter, Renay Pillay and Sharmla Rama This monograph addresses the challenges facing policy and its implementation in respect of women, development and transport by concentrating on selected sites in the rural Eastern Cape province of South Africa. A key indicator in social, political and economic development, transport is not simply about mobility and infrastructure, but also about socio-cultural roles and responsibilities that impede the development of women and girl children. The study provides original perspectives, via established methodologies and through the use of time-use diaries, on the important social, economic and cultural barriers that confirm women's negative experiences as effects of patriarchal power. Insights gained during the research are directed towards not only transport infrastructure in the Eastern Cape, but also to poverty alleviation, gender mainstreaming and intervention in respect of violence against women, a direct experience of the transport-and travel-related activities of women. This rich empirical evidence is reinforced by appropriate recommendations to provide valuable impetus for national policy and planning. |
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| The Sunburnt Queen by Hazel Crampton In the late 1730s, fifty years before the hapless 'Grosvenor' castaways struggled ashore in the exact same spot, an unknown English East Indiaman smashed to pieces on the reefs of Lambasi Bay, then sank. Not long after, the local inhabitants stumbled upon Bessie, a seven-year-old English girl with long black hair and blue eyes, huddled beside a rock on the beach. They took her home and brought her up as one of their own. Bessie grew into a young woman of legendary beauty and wisdom, and eventually caught the eye of one of the most important tribal chiefs in the area, who chose her to be his Great Wife. Using oral histories, written accounts by early missionaries and traders (some of whom actually met Bessie's grandchildren) and new evidence uncovered over many years of research, Hazel Crampton traces the extraordinary story of Bessie and her descendants throughout the turbulent history of the Eastern Cape from the eighteenth century to the present day. |
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