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""This is the sad story of a sad country, and of a humble black woman, who under the burden of South Africa's discriminatory laws, never gives up, never gives in." If the story were sad only, it might remain undistinuished, but the heroic nature of Poppie Nongena, and the great skill of the writer, Elsa Joubert, make of it an epic..." from the Foreward by Alan Paton Includes glossary of Xhosa words used throughout the book.