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Book extract: Struggle and Hope – Reflections on the recent history of the Transkeian People

Memoirist Mda Mda goes back to the late 1800s to present day – covering colonialism, to apartheid, and democracy – to trace the steps of a fractured Transkeian history in Struggle and Hope – Reflections on the recent history of the Transkeian People.

A desire to expose injustice

‘Crossing the border illegally into South Africa was like a Sunday afternoon stroll for Shaolin Masache. A customs official at the Beit Bridge border post arranged for Masache to get a gate pass after accepting a bribe of R100, which he shared with a police officer on duty at the border post. Masache, 28, walked into South Africa without a passport…He arrived in the farming town of Waterpoort in the Northern Province two days later after a punishing 90km walk…