Being a woman in Cape Town: Telling your story

Author: Nancy Richards and Carol du Toit
ISBN: 978-0-9946627-6-7

What’s it like being a woman in Cape Town? An organisation called WOMAN ZONE decided to find out. Over the course of a year they went to visit thirteen women in thirteen very different communities and invited them to tell their personal stories.

They listened, they recorded and carefully transcribed what each woman had to say. In this book are those stories, a collection of women with ‘everyday lives’.

They come from Steenberg/Muizenberg, Nyanga, Khayelitsha, Lavender Hill, Claremont, Manenberg, Pinelands, Wetton/Ottery, Plattekloof, Kuil’s River, Wynberg and Woodstock; and one who reflects on life in District Six, but now lives in Summergreens/Milnerton.

To similarly empower other women, there is also a chapter on How to tell your story.

Book Categories: Face2Face
Book Type: Non-fiction Autobiography, Trade
Book Size: 234mm x 152mm
Language: English
Number of Pages: 112 pages
Year of Publication: 2015
RRP: R220
ISBN: 978-0-9946627-6-7
Editor: Nancy Richards and Carol du Toit
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[The launch was] … inspirational for me  – and I am sure for many others to come. A landmark: both in spirit and in reality has been created that will surely take root and bear fruit. – Marina Petropoulos
I’m so moved by the concept, the caring-and-sharing, all the time and effort … and that it fits so beautifully with the wish to help, as Chris Anderson puts it, “reinvent the global campfire”. – Lyn Malan, Bendigo, Australia
Thank you for taking the time during this incredibly busy time for Woman Zone to send me a copy of the electronic book. I spent the day looking through it and am so proud of the work and the impact you all have had and that you continue to have. – Amanda Green