Wounds of Ignorance by Zanele Dlamini afrikaans

Wounds of Ignorance by Zanele Dlamini afrikaansSouth Africa, KwaZulu Natal, 1992: Twelve year old Simo begins Secondary school, neither him nor his family can foresee what happens in the years ahead. The IFP and ANC war shakes lives of many. Simo forced to be part of a guerrilla group and his mother to nurse the injured. The war leaves them to pick the pieces. Two decades later, Simo's secret past is a threat in his love life, like cancer it crawls up his skin and he must find what he longs for:

intimidation and the foulest abuses of citizens by their own government

Written as a letter from a Zimbabwean mother to her daughter

nature and war

landscape and the built environment

Murderous goings-on in a tiny church draw the Vatican into the dark heart of Seville

comrade President

During the next eight years Marechera remained in exile in England but with no fixed abode or employment

and is once again an irreverent and entertaining popular history of modern South Africa -- but with a more positive spin

Thoughtful

These poetic essays delve into the workings and passions of the human mind

ultimately to a last crusade - there perhaps

Footprints in the Quag which highlights the occurrence and effects of domestic violence