Looking back on the apartheid state: Bereft but unbowed
24 July 2016 - 02:00
In her memoir, ‘The Keeper of the Kumm’, playwright Sylvia Vollenhoven remembers working as a Sunday Times journalist reporting on unrest in the turbulent 1980s and the day a hand grenade opened her eyes to the vulnerability of the apartheid state.
It is 1985 and, like many others in the media, I am part of the cycle of covering township unrest, the inevitable funerals that result from it, and then the funerals of the people murdered by the police at the previous funeral.
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