The Racial Politics of South African Rooibos Tea
by
Sarah Fleming Ives
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
South African rooibos tea is a commodity of contrasts. Renowned for its healing properties, the rooibos plant grows in a region defined by the violence of poverty, dispossession, and racism. And while rooibos is hailed as an ecologically indigenous commodity, it is farmed by people who struggle to...