The Miracle of Crocodile Flats

The Miracle of Crocodile Flats is a novel on a sighting of Virgin Mary by a South African girl.
Hobbs, Jenny
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978-1-4152-0062-9
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Title: The Miracle of Crocodile Flats
Author: Jenny Hobbs
Genre: Novel
Publisher: Random House Struik
Imprint: Umuzi
Cape Town, South Africa 2012
ISBN 9781415200629 / ISBN 978-1-4152-0062-9
Softcover, 15 x 22 cm, 304 pages

Description:

Some years ago when the old South Africa had been voted into oblivion and the new was struggling to find its balance, when train and bus journeys were common and cellphones rare, a schoolgirl living in a platteland community saw a vision. It was a controversial sighting with extraordinary consequences. Pilgrims, tourists and the curious flocked there in ever rising numbers. Journalists and photographers gathered like bluebottle flies at a whiff of meat. Illustrated features were syndicated around the globe. The Catholic Church sent an investigator and a mother superior, then back-pedalled after Rome intervened and dogma began to supersede faith. Pundits wrote essays and took part in earnest tv documentaries about religious ecstasy versus the neurological explanation for hallucinations. Inspirational books were published by experts skilled at making a fast buck. Inevitably, a movie was made in glorious Technicolor with a cast of thousands. The rainbow nation was back in the world news, wearing a halo. But in the avalanche of words and images and financial deals, the plain truth was somehow lost. Here is the real story of the miracle of Crocodile Flats and the people whose good common sense turned a vision into a marvel. Once upon a time there was a run-down farming dorp that had lost its self-respect and mushroomed at the edges into a festering informal settlement.