Remarkable Women: Poppie Nongena
Women who can inspire: Th
There is one who I think we should all remember. I kno January 2020, but this is becoming even more dramat Poppie Nongema: The following is all from here
The background is South Africa in the 1970’s. (from ou novel “The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena” tells the kaans speaking Xhosa mother, whose life revolves aro od of insufferable upheaval in the country.
When her husband, Stone, became too ill to work, Pop resident in her own country.
She engaged in a desperate struggle with the authorit house to house, applying for permits, applying for ext every means at her disposal to remain with her childre
Caught in the cross fire of her children’s needs, her hu sive laws, she was finally forced to give in just as the 1
But what is really the reality is that this happened! It is And I have not been able to find a picture of the real P
The amazing thing here is that her story was told in bo mented.The different laws were there for all to see. We What we can also do is to ask our grandparents. They be forgotten.
Poppie Nongema passed in 1992. The Author of the b
The author Elsa Joubert died in Cape Town on 14 June
This is all very personal and that makes it worth knowi
