Ten top books on South Africa

At Signature Keith Rice tagged ten of the best books on South Africa, including:

Hum If You Don't Know the Words by Bianca Marais

Set in Johannesburg in the 1970’s, Hum If You Don’t Know the Words is a searing chronicle of one of the most tumultuous and violent periods of the apartheid era. Played out against the backdrop of the Soweto Uprising, a series of protests that were met with a brutal and deadly response by South African authorities, Hum tells the story of a young white girl named Robin and a Xhosa woman named Beauty bound together by tragedy and desperation.

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The Page 69 Test: Hum If You Don’t Know the Words.

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