ABSTRACT
Pippi Longstocking, daughter of the feared ship’s captain and king of the black cannibals; the white girl with the red hair who plays with the black children on a south sea island and isn’t intimidated by teachers or other adults-was she around in South Africa during the Apartheid era? Was she read, discussed in schools, or was she boycotted and maybe even censored or banned? Perhaps the liberal English-speaking children could still have enjoyed her, but surely not the Afrikaners, whose forefathers were largely responsible for Apartheid?
