TALES OF THE GRINDSTONE

61pp., paperback, Econoculture, Johannesburg, 2024

ISBN: 9780796168313

Bheki W.J. Langa on coming of age in KwaMashu township outside Durban in the 1970s and 1980s, a period of intense political unrest when young people clashed with apartheid security forces and several lost their lives. KwaMashu was created in the 1960s to house Black South Africans forcibly removed from Cato Manor under the Group Areas Act.