The old phrases crack and meaning shakes out wet and new. - Nadine Gordimer

You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.

Anyone who lives within a mile of the zoo hears lions on summer nights. A tourist could be fooled. Africa already; at last, even though he went to bed in yet another metropole.

He knows that the story of the Afrikaner farmer—regional Party leader and Commandant of the local security commando—shooting a black man who worked for him will fit exactly their version of South Africa.