BOOK REVIEW | The Quiet Violence of Young Mungo

Class subjugation leaves many men feeling like mere cogs in the capitalist system.

19 May 2022 - 08:23
By Eusebius McKaiser

Domestic violence was as much the mother tongue of my community as Afrikaans was. If I close my eyes now and think back to my childhood, happy faces and laughter mix with a cacophony of domestic violence sounds and scenes in the whole area. Just as in 'Young Mungo'.

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