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So Apartheid South Africa Was Way More Complicated than Black vs White

Let the Dead Lie by Malla Nunn

November 17, 2025 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

So we are back in the newly segregated apartheid version of South Africa, as formed in the 1950s.  Detective Emmanuel Cooper has had to revert from his former status as WWII vet and (most importantly) white person, to mixed race instead.  But Major van Niekerk (white Afrikaner) has a need for him and his partner and friend, the Zulu Detective Constable Samuel Shabalala, tracker extraordinaire.  A poor young white boy, Jolly Marks, had been found in the port town of Durban, South Africa, near the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Mystery Tagged With: 50s South Africa, But who would bother killing these people?, Malla Nunn, Nothing is black and white, Poor choices are made and the imaginary Scots drill master is here to tell you so, The unholy trinity - a mixed race a Zulu and a Jew, Then of course the feds step in and that is never a good sign

elderberrywine's CBR17 Review No:60 · Genres: Fiction, History, Mystery · Tags: 50s South Africa, But who would bother killing these people?, Malla Nunn, Nothing is black and white, Poor choices are made and the imaginary Scots drill master is here to tell you so, The unholy trinity - a mixed race a Zulu and a Jew, Then of course the feds step in and that is never a good sign ·
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