Fractured Lives – A memoir
Award-winning documentary filmmaker Toni Strasburg discusses her memoir ‘Fractured Lives’. Camera: Darlene Creamer & Shane Williams. Recorded: 08/05/2013.
Fractured Lives, written by Toni Strasburg, is a memoir of one woman’s experiences as a documentary filmmaker covering the wars in southern Africa during the 1980s and 1990s.
Interweaving autobiography, history and social commentary with frontline reporting, the memoir offers a personal female perspective on a traditionally male subject. Growing up in South Africa in a politically active family, Toni became a filmmaker while in exile in the years following the famous Rivonia Trial.
Despite the constant difficulties of finding funding and commissions from television broadcasters, she made several remarkable films across the Frontline States – Angola, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe – witnessing and recording the silent victims of war.
Fractured Lives describes the changing landscape of southern Africa as Namibian independence and the end of the war in Mozambique bring hope – but also despondency. In its final chapters, the memoir tells how people can survive the most desperate of odds and begin anew. Devastated towns slowly rebuild and normal human activity returns to scarred villages.
The memoir concludes with Strasburg’s return to South Africa after nearly three decades in exile. However, the joy of liberation is tempered by the poignancy of returning to a place that for so long had existed in her dreams alone and the realisation that home will forever lie somewhere else.
Fractured Lives is published by Modjaji Books
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