Exploring the past bringing it to vivid life with wonderful prose Pedder writes with perspicacity and sensitivity We need more books like this Observer
Fascincating 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 eyeopening journey across four centuries tracing the countrys turbulent past and the rise and fall of apartheid and her familys charged legacy through the lives of nine very different women
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 Capes grandest estate regains control from her violent husband
MARGARETHA uncompromising Afrikaner farmer resists the abolition of slavery
ANNA loads her family on an oxwagon and treks into the interior to elude the British
ISIE survives the Boer War to become wife of South Africas 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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