A Battlement of Spears

"WHAT cruel twist of tectonic irony caused the deepest scar on the earth’s surface across the face of that continent that would also suffer the most appalling of human tragedies?"

So begins a narrative set against the backdrop of the timeless mountain called in Zulu uKhahlamba, "the Barrier of Spears." Yet the story is not uniquely South African; it is not about apartheid, or about Blacks, or Whites. Rather, it is about the countless 'gray' people, ordinary individuals who become trapped in...