The long journey of Poppie Nongena by Elsa Joubert

Written to break the barrier of ignorance in late 1970s South Africa.  The long journey of Poppie Nongena, unsentimental but sensitive, this novel documents a harrowing life lived in a time that a country would rather forget.  A literary and commercial success when it was released in Afrikaans in 1979, Elsa Joubert's searing indictment of inhumanity remains universally relevant so many years later.