I read this book some years ago after hearing a radio interview with the author. I think the movie was in development stage then and by the time I was reading the book it came out.As some reviewers stated, the first half is devoted to display a landscape of SA politics and conflicts around 1993 a...
This was an immensely interesting book. I was coming of age when stories out of South Africa were in the news almost daily. I remember this being one of the first major news stories that I followed as a young adult (the power shift, that is) and I remember being quite mesmerized by it. I'm gla...
Dingaan, the Zulu king, eyed the trekkers with apprehension. He had received reports that they were gobbling up land wherever they went, but he had also heard that they had inflicted terrible losses on the black tribes that had tried to oppose them. Dingaan’s first instinct was to stand and fight...
THOMAS HUGHES, TOM BROWN’S SCHOOLDAYS ‘ANYTHING YOU can do I can do just as well’ was the spirit in which Oscar Pistorius started out his life, aged fourteen, at Pretoria Boys High School. Soon he would be put to the test. The new boys were packed off for three days to a remote farm owned by the ...