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Transplanted cultures: Indian women are shown on a sugar plantation in Natal in 1939. Indentured labourers arrived in South Africa in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Photo: Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images
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Children of Sugarcane: Where nothing sweet endures

With a rich plot full of surprises, Joanne Joseph’s debbut novel is bound together by a poetic turn of phrase

  • Sandile Ngidi
6 min read