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Coloured Diaries: Experiences of an Eastern Cape 'Mixed-Breed' Third Edition
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It is the Third Edition of 'Coloured Diaries'. The essayist - a brilliant scholar, social logistician, and expert of distinction, traverses the unsettling and unnerving issue of racism.
The author’s wounds have healed, and she equates herself to a gnarled olive tree, one which sprung to life and sprouted from the roots of an ancient tree which was so diseased and hollowed-out by life's trials and tribulations, that those who had chopped it down, assumed that it was gone for good - a modern-day Lazarus. One, whom many had thought, was no longer capable of reincarnation and resurrection. This is a woman who is determined not to be relegated to the dustbin of history as simply, another black face on a mugshot.
Wardle does much more than just draw from her experiences growing up in a racially diverse family in Parkridge, East London; to parents whose genealogical tentacles extend from Tsomo in the Eastern Cape, to Newcastle upon Tyne. And, whilst still relying on contributions from Professor Max Du Preez, Dr Russel Ally, Fezile Domino Mji and Tony Harding, in both the front and the back matter, Wardle has turned the tables upside down. The Author's Preface is different, it is fast-paced and gripping. In Chapter One, Wardle delves into the definitions of 'Native', 'Bastard', 'Hottentot', 'Griqua' and 'Coloured', as set out in legislation under Apartheid. She then incorporates case law and selected texts from Fakir v Rex, Tshwete v Rex, Le Fleur v Rex, Keimoes v Moller, Dunn v Rex and related cases. As usual, Wardle delivers her narrative professionally, 'with a flourish of satire and admirable finesse'. The Afterword is engaging and raw. Wardle takes a knee, a wounded one - but a knee nonetheless in honour of George Floyd, Steve Biko, and Colins Khosa and all those like them, who were obliterated from the face of the earth but not, from the collective memories of our human struggles! This – is a MUST READ!

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PublisherBrenda Wardle
Release dateFeb 20, 2017
ISBN9781370933006
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Coloured Diaries: Experiences of an Eastern Cape 'Mixed-Breed' Third Edition
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Brenda Wardle

Brenda Wardle is a South African Doctor of Laws student. She is a prolific author - essayist and poet. Wardle has published books on high profile criminal cases including 'To Kill a Fragile Rose: The State's Case Against Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius" to mention but a few. Her genres span poetry, children's books, fiction and non-fiction. Wardle is Chief Operations Officer at the Wardle College of Law and is a legal analyst of international repute having been interviewed on Sky News by Jeremy Thompson, BBC by Karin Giannone, Fox News by South African Correspondent, Paul Tilsey, SABC by Dumile Mateza. Between 1st January 2017 and 8th April 2017 Wardle has published 15 titles. On the 1st May 2017 she will be publishing her latest book, The Verdict: The Legal Trials and Tribulations of President Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (As Politics and the Law, Converge).https://t.co/tWXyidMl4y

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