It has become fashionable in our political discourse these days to spout, with impunity, racist rhetoric about South Africans of Indian origin, writes justicemalala.
The first time I read the opening lines of VS Naipaul’s classic A Bend in the River, I was shocked, horrified and energised — all at the same time. It was as if I had been struck by lightning, impaled by a vision that was too much for my mortal body. I could not believe that anyone could hold such a severe, misanthropic and brutal view of the world and of human nature.
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