by Admin | Jan 9, 2011 | apartheid, Children, creativity, fiction, human rights, Sharpeville massacre
© amazon.com 2011 Agaat, Marlene van Niekerk’s latest novel is worthy of being lauded as one of the great ones of any time and any place. Tolstoyan in its magnitude and impact, it is as ambitious in its themes as it is precise in its minutest details. Agaat,...
by Admin | Mar 11, 2010 | apartheid, Children, Conflagration, creativity, historical fiction, human rights, Sharpeville massacre, Uncategorized
On March 21 1960 the South African police shot and killed 69 people–men, women and children–at the police station in the dusty East Rand township of Sharpeville, South Africa. Almost two hundred more were injured. Almost all were shot in the back as they...
