Midlands by Jonny Steinberg
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ISBN: 9781868421244
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Ball Publishers; 2002
FORMAT: Paperback, 260 pages
DESCRIPTION: In the spring of 1999, in the beautiful and seemingly tranquil hills of the KwaZulu-Natal midlands, a young white farmer is shot dead on the dirt road running from his father's farmhouse to his irrigation fields. The murder is the work of assassins rather than robbers.
Journalist Jonny Steinberg travels to the midlands to investigate.
It is clear that the young white man is not the only one who will die and that the story of his and other deaths will illuminate a great deal about the early days of post-apartheid South Africa.
Midlands is a triumph of literary investigative journalism.