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South from the Limpopo : travels through South Africa / Dervla Murphy

By:

Murphy, Dervla, (, 1931-)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press , 1999.Description: xv, 432 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

9781585671274

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

916.8 MUR

LOC classification:

DT1738.M87 A3 1999

Summary: "This three-part journey of more than 6000 miles (before, during, and after the elections of 1994) took Murphy through all nine provinces of the new South Africa. She stayed in remote impoverished ex-"homeland" villages, the luxurious homes of rich whites and the simple homes of poor whites. In the vast black township of Khayelitsha she made good friends, as she did among the rural Boers of the platteland." "She came to realize how simplistic it is to see South Africa's conflict only as "black versus white." Her powerful book places the complex and apparently insoluble problems of South Africa in a new light, and movingly exhibits the great love she and the people she met share for the country."

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"Originally published in Great Britain by Joh Murray Ltd."--T.p. verso

"This three-part journey of more than 6000 miles (before, during, and after the elections of 1994) took Murphy through all nine provinces of the new South Africa. She stayed in remote impoverished ex-"homeland" villages, the luxurious homes of rich whites and the simple homes of poor whites. In the vast black township of Khayelitsha she made good friends, as she did among the rural Boers of the platteland." "She came to realize how simplistic it is to see South Africa's conflict only as "black versus white." Her powerful book places the complex and apparently insoluble problems of South Africa in a new light, and movingly exhibits the great love she and the people she met share for the country."

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