Bøger af Jacob Cloete

The Attempted Erasure of the Khoekhoe and San delves into the complex issue of problematic coloured identity and the ongoing erasure of the Khoekhoe and San people in South Africa. Despite the end of apartheid, this erasure continues to persist today, starting as far back as 1652. There were two types of erasure that took place - genocide and bureaucratic. While the former is acknowledged by President Thabo Mbeki in his "I Am an African" speech, the latter began in 1828 with Ordinance 50 in the Cape Colony. From this point, the Khoekhoe and San were bureaucratically erased, culminating in the 1950 Population Registration Act. Despite these attempts, the Khoekhoe and San people resisted and fought for their identity, resulting in their continued existence in the present day. This book documents their painful journey, highlighting their struggles against subjugation and erasure since 1652.

Tess, no father, and now eighteen and her mother dead too, and still so much to learn, the essentials, the meaning of life, and other challenges too, new places, new ideas, even food - especially preparing food, which she decides to master. And she would so much love to find out more about her dead hero father. Above all she faces the problem of being alone. Alone at home, alone in making choices: which university, how to live according to "mum's rules," how to relate to all her French relatives, including the recurring conflict between her atheism and their Catholicism, how to deal with friendships, and of course, men. Above all is the problem of being alone, of loneliness. Is the answer finding the right man? .