Having endured a lifetime of struggle from childhood, through youth and the beginning of his adult life, South African Tlou Setumu shares with readers a personal account of his rural and urban experiences.
This memoir is both the story of rural life and a chronicle of struggle against poverty for over three decades.
Find out from this book how many doors were banged in Tlou Setumu’s face.
Yet he continued his struggle against poverty, and ended up playing a valuable role in the preservation of heritage in Limpopo Province, within South Africa’s rural community. In spearheading the development of heritage in Limpopo, he has left a personal legacy which stands as an example to his community.

`What Setumu gives us in relation to his memories and experience of rural life is a portrait of poverty that continues to ravage most parts of our country. In so doing, he makes a valuable contribution to the untold stories of the history of our land.’
- Mpho ya gaNgoepe