JUSTICE MALALA: In the shadow of Idi Amin
A new racism is emerging in SA — and it’s targeting Indians
17 August 2022 - 07:00
The first time I read the opening lines of VS Naipaul’s classic A Bend in the River, I was shocked, horrified and energised — all at the same time. It was as if I had been struck by lightning, impaled by a vision that was too much for my mortal body. I could not believe that anyone could hold such a severe, misanthropic and brutal view of the world and of human nature.
“The world is what it is,” Naipaul wrote. “Men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.”..
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