A Nun and the Pig

In 1980, while Nelson Mandela languished in jail, an enthusiastic and hopelessly naïve British teenager arrived at a local school in Mandela's home state of Transkei. Wide-eyed and faced with an unfamiliar world, Treive Nicholas was about to embark on an adventure he would never forget. Looking back on this year forty years later, this book offers a remarkable insight into this politically charged but little-known part of Africa and a lived experience ranging from the surreal to the heartwarming; the wonderful to the tragic. One minute Nicholas could be entertaining local Thembu chiefs, the next he could be witnessing the terrible death of an infant in a neglected Umtata
township. Scrapes with law enforcement agencies increased in frequency and risk as Nicholas railed against the injustices of the apartheid system.