"A memoir"--Cover. Foreword by Professor Jonathan Jansen.
Contents:
The farm -- The town -- Sausages and butter: Preserving tradition -- The great divide -- The pondok -- The stad -- The toilet-lid covers -- 16 June -- The nursery school -- Rebecca -- 1 Milk and oranges -- Josephine -- The washing of hands -- The pothole -- Sickness -- Bonny -- A modest proposal -- Ntataise -- Papadi -- Suspicion -- New wings -- Too many questions -- Unexpected progress -- The do-gooder -- Sowing the seeds -- A warning -- Drumbeats -- Far and away -- Patience -- The ambassador -- Woman of the Year -- Flying the coop -- Letsitele -- Sharp sharp -- The shoplifter -- Election day -- Letting go -- Scientifically proven -- Toy trolleys -- Maria and Ishmael -- New York -- An empty space -- A new millennium -- Selena Moloke -- The Queen Mother -- Positive -- The vigil -- Toyi-toyi -- Tomorrow.
Summary:
"In A Path Unexpected, Evans shares her life, working as a journalist in the big city, then moving to the small town of Viljoenskroon in the northern Free State with her husband, Anthony Evans, a well-known and respected businessman and farmer. It is here that she created her non-profit organisation to provide education and training for the wives and children of farm labourers during the height of apartheid. Her profound influence on these families labels her as an activist for her early childhood development (ECD) and adult teaching advocacy in rural communities. This memoir is about family, love, loss, finding purpose and dedicating oneself to a life of service. Eloquently written and told with great sensitivity and humility, this is a memoir about how one woman's unexpected path led to family-like bonds in the unlikeliest of places, and a dream so profound that it would impact generations of young learners and the women who teach them."--Publisher's description.
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