10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PONDOKKIE»
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pondokkie in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
pondokkie and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
In the Dark with My Dress on Fire: My Life in Cape Town, ...
The rains are awaited with dread, and in the pondokkies scattered throughout the
Cape Flats, the families eye their flimsy ceilings with doubt and hope that they will
prove strong enough to keep the rain out ... ... a pondokkie burnt down the ...
Roger Field, Blanche La Guma, 2011
2
Alex la Guma: A Literary & Political Biography
The rains are awaited with dread, and in the pondokkies scattered throughout the
Cape Flats, the families eye their flimsy ceilings with doubt and hope that they will
prove strong enough to keep the rain out ... ... a pondokkie burnt down the ...
3
Blank--: architecture, apartheid and after
It is the pondokkie which stands out consistently as the symbol of the end-result
of uncontrolled [native] migration. To thousands the pondokkie is 'home', a
tangible retreat from the rigours of competitive living; to the casual observer it is
an ...
Hilton Judin, Ivan Vladislavić, Nederlands Architectuurinstituut, 1998
Second, Gloria must surely have many beautiful friends. As soon as The
Troubadours arrive, we'll meet Gloria and recruit her most glamorous friend,
having prepared in advance a party for four in the pondokkie. We'd get together a
spread that ...
From that time too, the cavernous Kirkwall basement, nicknamed with wry humor
by A.P. as pondokkie pansi, which translated roughly from Fanagalo, the lingua
franca of the various African tribes, as 'the shack below', came into its own; ...
6
Happy Sad Land: A Journey Through Southern Africa
pondokkie,' he said. Eventually, a compromise was arrived at. We would have
both: the pasta at seven-thirty, the pondokkie at nine. But by nine, Otto, who'd
moved on from beer to brown sherry to wine, was so tired and drunk that he was
...
Robert St. John. no gas, no running water, no roads, no sidewalks, no sewage-
disposal system, not even privies. The structures they use for protection against
the elements are called pondokkies. A pondokkie needs to be seen to be
believed.
8
Report of a Committee of enquiry appointed to enquire into ...
It is the " pondokkie " which stands out consistently as the symbol of the end-
result of uncontrolled migration. To thousands the pondokkie is " home ", a
tangible retreat from the rigours of competitive living; to the casual observer it is
an ...
South Africa. Committee of enquiry into conditions existing on the Cape flats and similarly-affected areas in the Cape division, South Africa. Dept. of Social Welfare, 1943
Here's a fellow born in a pondokkie who has got free and who lives his own life
as he wants to and gets good out of that life for himself, is happy in it." Mr. Lytton's
story conveys the pointless horror of South African racialism. J. W. I. Echoes of ...
10
Crucifixion Or Crucifiction?
Jim Bishop (a Christian authority of note), in his book "The Day Christ Died",
gives the dimensions as 5 feet wide by 7 feet high by 15 feet deep, with a ledge
or ledges inside, which any "pondokkie" dweller in our slums would have been
happy ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PONDOKKIE»
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... mistresses), silk suits, overpriced pondokkie-khaya palaces, global jet-setting unto global jets, stilted TV appearances and luxury supercars. «News24, Jul 14»
