CHILDREN OF A BITTER HARVEST CHILD LABOUR IN THE CAPE IN SOUTH AFRICA

Children Of A Bitter Harvest - Child Labour In The Cape Winelands  - Susan Levine - Best Red - - paperback as new. Postage & packaging R The stories in  Children Of A Bitter Harvest  document moments in the lives of children who worked in the heart of South Africa's wine industry between and , as framed by the uprisings on farms at the start of .   The book is made up of over 100 interconnected flashes, or fragments of stories, taken from the lives of farm workers, farmers, child workers, human rights lawyers, and ordinary people affected by the agricultural industry in the Western Cape. The children in the book are no longer children; they are young adults in a new South Africa that offers them certain freedoms to overcome the shackles of race and class domination. However, without the kind of radical economic and social restructuring that would make this possible, all of the children represented in the book remain extremely poor adults. The author documents how, for these children, their child labour of the s inevitably gave way to adult labour and powerfully demonstrates that the breath between childhood and adulthood is as tender as it is tenuous. We are a nation that has managed to end the brutality of apartheid, but we are a nation that has yet to replace brutality itself.