A Dangerous Occupation

From the LRB letters page: [ 22 June 2000 ] David Potter [ 6 July 2000 ] Lewis Nkosi.

R.W. Johnson is an emeritus fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. His new book, South Africa’s Brave New World, will be published by Penguin in the spring.

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