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My traitor's heart : a South African exile returns to face his country, his tribe, and his conscience

My traitor's heart : a South African exile returns to face his country, his tribe, and his conscience

Book 1990

Rian Malan is an Afrikaner, scion of a clan that settled South Africa over three hundred years ago and blood relative of the architect of apartheid. Raised in the comfortable, westernized white suburbs, Malan pictured himself as Just White Man, but he was, in fact, far removed from the horrors of his country. He then became a crime reporter on a Johannesburg daily. His beat was the front line in an undeclared civil war, and each day he came face...