Yes, there is a minority, both black and white, who enjoy the largess and goodies of freedom, but they are a very small minority indeed. South Africans – 'the people,' white, black, Indian or Jew, still exist under the sirens, the hard knuckles and jackboots of apartheid conditions. In this ironic and cruel social and economic stasis it is not only the people, the oppressed miners in this instance, who are 'mine boys.' It is not for nothing that Peter Abrahams' rebellious and fighting mine boy, 'Xuma,' of 1942 has been transformed into 'Zuma' of 2012, president of the republic of South Africa. While he competes with the erstwhile colonial master in pomp, pageantry, pleasure and philandering within the colonial mansion, Zuma forgets his alter ego, Xuma, slaving thousands of miles under the earth in the mines of 1942; he forgets that his past and his future ought to find a political resolution in the present. http://www.mtls.ca/issue13/editorial/
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