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- Swimming with Cobras
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Modjaji Books
summary
Swimming with Cobras is a memoir about a journey to find a foothold in a foreign land grappling with its own identity, offering rare and important insight into a corner of South Africa's past. Rosemary Smith�s life as an activist in the Eastern Cape began when she moved from England with her South African born husband in the mid-1960s. They made their home in Grahamstown where they raised four children. As a member of the Black Sash she participated in events spanning three decades in an intensely politicised and oppressed province. Through her involvement she made the transition to full integration in a country that at first struck her as alien and strange.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. ii-xiv
- Swimming with cobras
- pp. 1-8
- A sheltered life
- pp. 9-20
- Not a person
- pp. 21-31
- Establishing an identity
- pp. 32-48
- Working days
- pp. 49-68
- Repression hits the Eastern Cape
- pp. 80-95
- More detentions
- pp. 96-111
- Getting the message across
- pp. 112-124
- Chinks appearing
- pp. 125-135
- Improvements in progress
- pp. 136-149
- Knitting with barbed wire
- pp. 150-159
Additional Information
ISBN
9781920590246
Related ISBN(s)
9781920397371
MARC Record
OCLC
821216737
Pages
186
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No