Moederland Nine Daughters of South Africa

'Exploring the past, bringing it to vivid life with wonderful prose . . . Pedder writes with perspicacity and sensitivity . . . We need more books like this' Observer<BR/>  <BR/> 'Fascincating and engrossing' Literary Review<BR/>  <BR/> 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.<BR/>  <BR/> KROTOA is Khoikhoi translator to the newly arrived Dutch East India Company<BR/>  <BR/> ANGELA, a former slave from Bengal, climbs the ladder of settler society<BR/>  <BR/> ELSJE arrives from Germany aged 3, marries at 13, a mother at 15<BR/>  <BR/> ANNA, mistress of the Cape's grandest estate, regains control from her violent husband<BR/>  <BR/> MARGARETHA, uncompromising Afrikaner farmer, resists the abolition of slavery<BR/>  <BR/> ANNA loads her family on an ox-wagon and treks into the interior to elude the British<BR/>  <BR/> ISIE survives the Boer War to become wife of South Africa's Prime Minister and 'Mother of the Nation'<BR/>  <BR/> CATO escapes to England and the Quakers as white supremacy mutates into apartheid<BR/>  <BR/> PETRONELLA, returning to the Motherland, falls in love across the colour bar and risks everything to fight the system her grandfather set in motion.<BR/>