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Based on interviews with Kas Maine, this text recreates the life of a man who struggled to maintain his family in a world dedicated to enriching whites and impoverishing blacks, while South Africa was tearing both apart. North America: Farrar, Straus & Giroux; South Africa: Jonathan Ball
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History forgets the small and powerless. It is to South African historian and journalist Charles Van Onselen's credit that he has remembered one of them in a sprawling biography: an illiterate black South African tenant farmer who lived out his days under apartheid. The existence of Kas Maine (1894-1985) had hitherto been formally acknowledged only in official state records, and then only once, for having been arrested in 1931 for not having a license for his pet dog. From that sketchy base Van Onselen creates a powerful life study of a man who lived as best as he could under the most trying circumstances. But he does much more than that: he reinforces Maine's story with a long and fluent account of South African history in the last century.
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Charles van Onselen is research professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria. He is the recipient of The Sunday Times/Alan Paton Award and the Herkovitz Award.
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- PublisherDavid Philip, Cape Town
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 085255740X
- ISBN 13 9780852557402
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages668
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