For Black South Africans, Apartheid Was a House of Bondage'

I have choked it down and I know, Ernest Cole (1940-1990) writes of the barely edible porridge fed to Black South Africans in hospitals and jails alike; but the phrase looms over HOUSE OF BONDAGE (Aperture, $65), his 1967 account of the atrocities of apartheid.The book has been out of print until now.

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