{"product_id":"9781472090980_for-the-people","title":"For The People","description":"\u003ch2\u003eA small town’s struggle for freedom against apartheid\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘They call her Nobantu.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI call her mother.’\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnelia Schutte grew up in Knysna – a beautiful town on the coast of South Africa centred around a picturesque lagoon and popular with tourists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut there was another side to Knysna. In the hills surrounding the town, with its exclusively white population, lay the squatter camps where black people were forced to live.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost white children would never venture over the other side of the hill, but Anelia did. As a young child in the 1980s, she often went there with her mother – a social worker who served Knysna’s black community and found herself swept up in their struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThirty years later, Anelia returns to Knysna to uncover the stories of a town that was torn apart by apartheid, and her mother’s tireless work during the political unrest that clouded the country at the time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThey called her Nobantu: ‘for the people’.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn exploration of apartheid told through the struggle for freedom by one small town in the Western Cape of South Africa.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anelia Schutte","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47285360230549,"sku":"9781472090980","price":12.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9781472090980.jpg?v=1776992105","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9781472090980_for-the-people","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}