![]() South Africa is a country to the south, which formerly had an apartheid system. Thus they had a bigger stake in the country and thought of themselves as Rhodesians rather than as colonials or British. They were farmers, bankers, teachers, mechanics, and so on, and they were there for life. White people here weren't just tax collectors or administrators - people waiting for the end of their term so they could go back "home". People calling each other by their surnames, referring to "natives", waiting for letters from "home"? Southern Rhodesia was a colony of course, but it was a self-governing one. When I read the opening chapter I struggled to relate it to the country I grew up in. I was born in Southern Rhodesia myself, about the same time this novel was published.
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