My Traitor's Heart

Rian Malan

How can a white South African come to terms with a country built on conquest, fear and bloodshed, and find a place in Africa?

At a glance

You will understand how a people's founding myth of covenant and conquest was used to justify white rule over blacks
You will notice how white liberals embraced a notion of black culture while overlooking the black people in their own back yards
You will question easy explanations of township killing, when nobody at a press conference could say why it was necessary