I never thought I had a book in me. Not until, while on a writing retreat, I started remembering the stories.
Stories my parents had told me when I was growing up. Of riots. Of secret meetings. Of phones being tapped. Of my mother driving through barricades of armoured vehicles and burning cars to help the black people on the other side. Stories of how she stood up to the police for arresting and detaining honest people. And eventually left her job because my father didn’t want to raise me and my brothers alone.
Snippets of memories from a childhood I hadn’t thought about for twenty years.
I wanted to know more; to find out what had really happened in my hometown all those years before.
I put my job in London on hold, got on a plane and went back to Knysna to find the truth.
What I found was a story much bigger than my mother. It was a story of a whole community, black, white and brown, torn apart and brought together by apartheid.
For the People is that story.
Anelia Schutte 
Thank you Anelia
I laughed and I cried. What a great story, having lived through these times in South Africa, it brought back the memories of those scary days, when we did not know what was going to happen to our country. Such an easy and informative read. Great that these are real people that have been in our lives and you have brought them to life again.Your mother is a wonderful person and it is an honor to know her and your father. Please could you have this book published in hard print as there are many people out there who would love to read it (lots of our older folk are a bit technically challenged). We await your next book with anticipation.
Nicolette Rayment
Plettenberg Bay
If this publication in print or only e-books. I have a volunteer in Knysna who read the sample and would like to buy a copy
Hi there, I’m afraid it’s only available as an e-book, sorry!
Ah ok! Thanks! Will one day get a copy to read. I work in the townships of Knysna so have a special interest in reading your mom’s life story
Oh I’m so glad someone is carrying on the good work! Hope you do manage to read the book; it will give you a lot of background to the townships themselves and the people who live there.
Yes would like that. Been working in the areas since 2008 and know so many great people there
I remember you and your dad
Biology teacher
Theron
Khs
I remember you and your dad
Biology teacher
Theron
Khs
Cool
Hi Andre, what’s you surname? I’m sure we’ll remember you too!