![]() ![]() The violence was inflicted by White supremacists determined to hang onto power by tribal rivals competing for political influence and by a still intransigent government which while publicly negotiating reform was behind the scenes provoking violence in order to show that the Black majority was too divided to assume power. This traumatic transitional period was marked by violence which shocked the world community. ![]() The novel is set in an unnamed city in the dying days of South Africa under apartheid, between the release of Nelson Mandela from Robben Island and the relaxation of bans on Black political parties in 1990, and the democratic vote which brought Black majority rule in 1994. Ways of Dying by Zakes Mda, is a brilliant book. ![]()
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