Transvaal Episode

Set in the fictional town of Nelstoom, in the Transvaal, during the Apartheid era in South Africa, this powerful novel concerns itself with relations between the Africans who live in the town's "Location" and their white neighbors.One day Walter Mabasso comes to live in the Location, and his arrival causes new currents, new tensions, and new emotions to stir in the shabby streets and houses.The Location superintendent, Hendrik du Toit, is a serious and hardworking civil servant who not only tries to please his employers, the Town Council, but the Location people as well. He would have been amazed to know that his honest, earnest and elevated motives make him seem a tyrant to the natives.These two men - Mabasso as Du Toit - also come to symbolize and bear responsibility for what follows, when a tiny incident in the life of the Location grows into a conflagration that engulfs the entire town and all of its inhabitants.

Harry Bloom

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Transvaal Episode