Driven into a black mood by past

This strange tale - of pain "so violent, so unbearable, that the body and the mind cannot let go" - has for me a parallel with [Eric Miyeni]'s The Release, a novel that looks at one of the burning questions of our time: what it means to be black in post-apartheid South Africa. "W...

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Published inCape times (South Africa)
Main Author Kona, Bongani
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cape Town Independent Online (South Africa) 13.07.2012
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Hlungwani, Jeremy
Miyeni, Eric
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Summary:This strange tale - of pain "so violent, so unbearable, that the body and the mind cannot let go" - has for me a parallel with [Eric Miyeni]'s The Release, a novel that looks at one of the burning questions of our time: what it means to be black in post-apartheid South Africa. "Who the devil is she anyway if not a black snake in the grass, deployed by white capital to sow discord among blacks?" Miyeni had written in the wake of a City Press expose of Julius Malema's dodgy dealings in Limpopo. "In the '80s she'd probably have had a burning tyre around her neck".