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Revisiting South Africa

by Leo Anthony
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9783910639348
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Leo Anthony
  • Publisher Imprint: Leo Anthony
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 144
  • Original Price: USD 9.89
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 200 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Africa / South / General

This book recounts the British-Zimbabwean author's travels to Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg and Pretoria in South Africa, midway through the last decade, a time of student unrest and imminent political upheaval.

You will be interested in this book if:

  • You enjoy narrative, non-fiction writing
  • You have an interest in personal narratives
  • You enjoy contemporary descriptions of places including the people, history and cultures thereof
  • You enjoy anecdotal reporting which ties into a bigger narrative story
  • You enjoy an infusion of humourous anecdote and conversation

The story begins in the mother city, Cape Town, after Leo returns from abroad to attend his brother's wedding. He spends some time in a Cape Town backpackers and meets some intriguing inhabitants, Okkert and Carllo. Carllo is in communion with The Essence, a mystical life-force, and offers to divine his future.

He revisits his old university in Pretoria and visits some of the landmarks which he neglected to do as a student. The confrontation between the past and present is everywhere: the student protests under the banner #RhodesMustFall; the newly erected palisade fence around the statue of the Boer leader, Paul Kruger, recently desecrated; and the transformation of Church Square.

Underlying his travels around South Africa, now in its 3rd decade of democracy, are questions of identity, affiliation and belonging.

The last two chapters are given over to his varied adventures at Ardmore Guest Farm at the foothills of the Central Drakensberg. A motley assortment of characters grace the pages of this one-of-a-kind establishment.

Despite many of the events recorded here harking back to the last decade, the author gives an honest assessment of the current state of affairs in South Africa in the Afterword, and his take on the politics, dynamics and choices the nation faces today, thirty years after Independence.

Anthony, Leo: -

Leo has spent the last six years in mainland Europe, initially living in an intentional community on the Dutch-German border, and more recently just outside the town of Kleve (Cleves) in North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany.

When he isn't writing he spends his time looking after children with Mirjam, fixing up their old house and gardening.

He can be contacted at leo@passaportis.com

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