| Colored Hill is the title of a first novel authored by Verenia Keet, who grew up in a township for Coloreds on the Cape Flats during South Africa’s apartheid years.
Colored Hill is a literal translation of ‘Bonteheuwel’, where the story is set and which was among the first Cape colored settlements of the late fifties. The story chronicles the township environment of the young Hunt family and the social impacts of new surroundings and activities shaped by South Africa’s racial classification system.
Set during the sixties through to the eighties, Colored Hill is simply written and provides a fleeting insight into the birth of a new culture, which leads the community’s social and political influences from slumber to experiences of awareness. Through an orientation of words and deeds that graduate this young community’s growing up, Colored Hill provides an element of memory lane reading that captures the spirit of township life amid the dissection of familial background.
Colored Hill concludes with a compilation of free verse titled French Letters, which converts South Africa’s new challenger from that of apartheid to AIDS.
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