A path through hard grass : a journalist's memories of exile and apartheid / Ruth Weiss ; with a foreword by Nadine Gordimer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weiss, Ruth, 1924- author.

Contributor:

Gordimer, Nadine, writer of foreword.

Series:

Lives, legacies, legends.

Lives, Legacies, Legends

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Weiss, Ruth, 1924-.

Weiss, Ruth.

Women journalists--South Africa--Biography.

Women journalists.

Women journalists--Biography.

Anti-apartheid activists--South Africa--Biography.

Anti-apartheid activists.

Exile (Punishment)--Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

Exile (Punishment).

Apartheid--South Africa--History.

Apartheid.

South Africa--Politics and government--20th century.

South Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Basel, Switzerland : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, travelling 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."

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; FOREWORD; A NOTE REGARDING LANGUAGE; PROLOGUE; FROM FÜRTH TO JOHANNESBURG; AN UNJUST SOCIETY; NEW CUSTOMS; TEENAGE YEARS; JOHANNESBURG, JEWBURG AND E'GOLI; TROUBLED YEARS; EXPERIENCE WITH THE BOERS; THE FIFTIES; A NEW BEGINNING; CAREER MOVES; THE SIXTIES; FLIGHT AND TRAVEL; NEW FRIENDSHIPS AND LOVE; FLEET STREET, SALISBURY, LONDON; ZAMBIA - LIFE IN A FRONTLINE STATE; VOICE OF GERMANY; LONDON AND LANCASTER HOUSE; AN UNUSUAL JOURNEY; ZIMBABWE; SOUTH AFRICA; LATER YEARS; POSTSCRIPT; ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS; PHOTOGRAPHS

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ISBN:

9783905758542

3905758547

OCLC:

933516692