Böcker av Buntu Siwisa

Daniel Dumile Qeqe (1929-2005), 'Baas Dan', 'DDQ'. He was the Port Elizabeth leader whose struggles and triumphs crisscrossed the entire gamut of political, civic, entrepreneurial, sports and recreational liberation activism in the Eastern Cape.

Luzuko Goba, a South African studying at Oxford, navigates the worlds of the undocumented, and the people living at the margins of English life. His father, a former political exile, has just died, and Luzuko is weighing up his father's life of sacrifice and the price they both paid for freedom back home. This is a book about wayfarers, out of time, and on the wrong side of the UK's department of immigration. They are the paperless.Sweeping and soulful, Buntu Siwisa observes the hidden and exceptional modern lives of migrant Africans in England in this beautiful debut.

Buntu Swisa has written a vivid biography of Dan Qeqe, the legendary sportsman, powerbroker and pioneer of black rugby and the liberation of sport. His book examines the complex and questionable relationships that Qeqe had with the enemies of non-racial sport, which cemented his power base. Siwisa tells the story of Qeqe's life and times and at the same time has written a social and political biography of Port Elizabeth--a people's history of Port Elizabeth. As much as Qeqe was a local legend, his achievements had national repercussions and, indeed, continue to this day.Print editions not for sale in Sub Saharan Africa.