Guest Speaker Anelia Schutte
Luncheon at
Buitenverwachting on Thursday 13 June at 12 noon for 12h30
Anelia
Schutte grew up in Knysna, lives in London and is currently based in the United
States. She will be in Cape Town for a short time to promote her book For the People.
It
is an interesting Biography/Autobiography based on her life in Knysna...
Anele
says:
“I
never thought I had a book in me. Not until, while on a writing retreat, I
started remembering the stories. Stories my parents had told me when I was
growing up. Of riots. Of secret meetings. Of phones being tapped. Of my mother
driving through barricades of armoured vehicles and burning cars to help the
black people on the other side. Stories of how she stood up to the police for
arresting and detaining honest people. And eventually left her job because my
father didn’t want to raise me and my brothers alone.
Snippets
of memories from a childhood I hadn’t thought about for twenty years.
I
wanted to know more; to find out what had really happened in my hometown all
those years before.
I put
my job in London on hold, got on a plane and went back to Knysna to find the
truth.
What
I found was a story much bigger than my mother. It was a story of a whole
community, black, white and brown, torn apart and brought together by
apartheid.
For
the People is that story.”
We
are hoping to sit on the Terrace overlooking the mountains and the beautiful
vineyards at Buitenverwachting. Menu available on request The price per person is R440 inclusive of
wine and service.
Please
telephone Sandy on 021 685 8016 to book or for more information sandybailey@telkomsa.net .
Published by Jonathan Ball Publishers
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