113pp., paperback, Hands-On Books, Cape Town, 2024

ISBN: 9781991240255

In 2016 Cape Town academic Andries du Toit was violently assaulted in a parking garage two weeks after challenging a white man he felt was being rude to a black waitress in the cafeteria of his health club. He discovered the attack was payback from a notorious gangster.

"Vividly and poignantly, Andries du Toit reveals, probes and picks at the scars of violence and racism in South Africa that refuse to heal. That cannot heal unless confronted with words, that cannot be confronted with words without opening up new wounds and reopening old ones. Scars whose provenance exceeds the vocabularies we have for understanding violence ... I am grateful for this book and humbled by it." Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences, University of Chicago

Andries du Toit is a researcher, teacher, and writer based at the School of Government, University of the Western Cape.

A BLOW TO THE HEAD, a history of violence

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