Name: A Path Through Hard Grass. A Journalist's Memories of Exile and Apartheid
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Author: Weiss, Ruth
ISBN: 9783905758399

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A Path Through Hard Grass. A Journalist's Memories of Exile and Apartheid

Type

Physical Book

Author

Ruth Weiss

Publisher

African Books Collective

Language

English

Pages

278

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

24.4 x 17.0 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.44 kg.

ISBN13

9783905758399

Synopsis "A Path Through Hard Grass. A Journalist's Memories of Exile and Apartheid"

A child of a Jewish family fleeing Nazi-Germany and settling in apartheid South Africa in the 1930s, Ruth Weiss' journalistic career starts in Johannesburg of the 1950s. In 1968 banned from her home country, and then also from Rhodesia for her critical investigative journalism, she starts reporting from Lusaka, London and Cologne on virtually all issues which affect the newly independent African countries. Peasants and national leaders in southern Africa - Ruth Weiss met them all, traveling through Africa at a time when it was neither usual for a woman to do so, nor to report for economic media as she did. Her writing gained her the friendship of diverse and interesting people. In this book she offers us glimpses into some of her many long-nurtured friendships, with Kenneth Kaunda or Nadine Gordimer and many others. Her life-long quest for tolerance and understanding of different cultures shines through the many personalized stories which her astute eye and pen reveals in this book. As she put it, one never sheds the cultural vest donned at birth, but this should never stop one learning about and accepting other cultures.

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