{"id":55124,"date":"2020-02-28T13:28:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T11:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/eikestadnuus\/how-tudge-taught-the-canna-bush-20200228\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T01:10:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T23:10:51","slug":"how-tudge-taught-the-canna-bush-20200228","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/eikestadnuus\/how-tudge-taught-the-canna-bush-20200228\/","title":{"rendered":"How Tudge taught the Canna Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"left\" id=\"45693ec0\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"book\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/10015\/e407dffa35b84ecc98393de2d668d8ea.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/eikestadnuus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/3d44d9438e974c9aa21de01846b33d50.jpg\" title=\"Dr Rujie Tudge during the Adam Small Literary Festival. Photo: Elmarine Anthony\"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Dr Rujie Tudge during the Adam Small Literary Festival. Photo: Elmarine Anthony<\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1978, Rajie Tudge from Durban was offered a promotion, as head of Afrikaans at a Cape Town school only six months into her teaching career.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was a Hindu woman teaching Afrikaans, and was being offered a HOD post at a school in Cape Town where the pupils were Afrikaans speaking,\u201d she told an audience at the Adam Small Literary Festival in Pni\u00ebl on Saturday 22 February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t know why I was being offered that promotion. I didn\u2019t even think there was an ulterior motive. It was only when I arrived in Cape Town that the penny dropped.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her book, published in earlier this year, is entitled <em>Teaching the Canna Bush: My journey through apartheid and beyond<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Tudge (n\u00e9e Pillay) approached the school on her first day she saw young people standing at the gates holding placards aloft reading \u201cDurban teachers go home. Pillay go home.\u201d She said the school principal and two vice principals explained the \u201cbitter problem\u201d the school had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRylands is the first designated Indian area in Cape Town, like Mitchells Plain is the first Coloured area [sic],\u201d reads an extract from Tudge\u2019s book. \u201cThe school is only allowed to enrol Indian, Cape Malay and Asian pupils\u2026 Before the school was built, Indian children attended Coloured schools in Cape Town\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYour contract with the Department (of Indian Education) makes discussing politics in class, a dismissible offence. Steer clear of discussing this matter with your pupils. These students are not like Durban students, Ms Pillay. Firstly, they are much older, some in their 20s, some from India, repeating the standard for the second or third time because they failed Afrikaans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other topics Tudge explores in her memoir include the problems she and her late husband faced as a mixed-race couple who had a son at the time of the Immorality Act, Mixed Marriages Act and \u201capartheid police peeping through your window\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo pen a coherent story I had to delve into my own circumstances of growing up,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tudge was the eighth-born of 14 children, sandwiched between two brothers. \u201cMy elder sisters didn\u2019t want to share with me. The younger ones thought my ideas weren\u2019t good enough. I had to find my own devices to keep myself occupied.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The title of the book stems from one of the ways in which she kept herself occupied.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe had an outside toilet \u2013 the bucket system,\u201d she related. \u201cAlong the path to the toilet grew some Canna plants \u2013 the Canna Bush. I used to stand there with a ruler and teach this bush whatever I learnt at school, whether it was cities of Africa, geography or parts of the body I learnt in biology. I used to come back and teach this bush. This archetype of teacher is a common thread that runs through my book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI found the more I wrote the book the more I wanted to tell. The more cathartic it was for me to express these bottled-up emotions over the years. Not just the sorrows, but the joys I had suppressed over the years. That, for me, was finding my voice and I found my voice at last.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"left\" id=\"9441e0eb\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"book\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/10016\/b4edb494a3eb46a9ab221c45a2e0444d.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/eikestadnuus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/bfac62c3119a4018a509c8f0779fbd6b.jpg\" title=\"The book is available from Adams Bookstores.\"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">The book is available from Adams Bookstores.<\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>When she wrote her book she didn\u2019t think she would be a speaker at the Adam Small Literary Festival, even though she does include a quote from the late writer in the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Tudge, as head of Rylands High\u2019s Afrikaans Department she had to do the prescribed lists of reading, literature and poetry for Grade 10s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI decided that I wanted to include coloured academics, writers and poets in the syllabus. 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