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This novel (241pg) by Black South African writer Sipho Sepamla, was written about the 1977 Soweto Uprising (they normally call them "riots" because the participants weren't white). It discusses both the students' movement which led the uprising, as well as the armed resistance groups which operated in South Africa during the period of white-rule (and now, thanks to the heroic sellout of Mandela, there is Black rule over economic apartheid, with the white torturers and murderers still free, and white ownership of an vastly unproportionate amount of land still continuing).

One of the interesting things about this novel is that the resistance to apartheid which it details is solely violent resistance, as opposed to the image that is propogated now about how it was a "non-violent" movement against oppression, which is of course completely wrong. The students in the story know what they are doing, and regularly make use of violent means, whether stone throwing, petrol bombings, etc...while the armed resistance fighter in the novel makes use of more traditional means such as a gun and bombs. It also focuses on the brutal torture and criminal behaviour of the white racist security services, and the disgusting african collaborators who worked for them, against the wide spread popular hatred of the white racists and their brutal security services.

Anyway, it is a very interesting novel on apartheid in South Africa and the Africans' brave violent resistance to the whites and their brutal and racist rule. Enjoy comrades:

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A Ride on the Whirlwind - Sipho Sepamla.pdf