The lion sleeps tonight
Subtitle: and other stories of Africa
By: Rian Malan
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780802119902
Subjects: Post-apartheid era; History
Description: A chronicle of South Africa's halting, sometimes violent, steps and missteps, taken as blacks and whites try to build a new country.
Table of contents: title: Politics: The last Afrikaner ; Invictus ; Season of the leopard ; Report from Planet Mbeki; title: Culture: In the jungle ; The beautiful and the damned ; Great white hyena ; Jewish blues in darkest Africa; title: Disease: The body count ; Among the AIDS fanatics; title: Truth: A truth of sorts ; The Queen ; A question of spin; title: Light: The apocalypse that wasn't ; The People's Republic of Yeoville; title: Darkness: House for sale in doomed country ; Ugly scenes in Boer provence ; Nemesis ; Messiah of the potato fields; title: Mutations: Did you hear the one about Apartheid? ; Those fabulous Alcock boys.