Remembered Violence - Hardcover

Ronnie Mutch

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0091241308 ISBN 13: 9780091241308

Publisher: Hutchinson, 1976

Remembered violence is the story of one man's day, his last in the Republic of South Africa. This is no orderly day given to the routine of packing and tearful goodbyes, but rather an accelerating crash of events, told with an insider's feeling and knowledge into which the reader is inevitably drawn. Louis Grayling is a young scientist who has become deeply involved in anti-apartheid activities. With the flimsiest of advance warnings, he has to flee towards the border of South Africa pursued by the security police. Will he make it before he is caught or betrayed? And what will happen to those that he was forced to abandon in Johannesburg? Ronnie Mutch shows brilliantly how the machinery of 'law and order' and 'separate development' (repression and white supremacy to the rest of us) engenders terrorism as a means of physical and sometimes moral survival. Remembered Violence is an explosively gripping political thriller, a masterful cross-cut of events, memories and people on the protagonist's day of flight. About the author: Ronnie Mutch was born and educated in South Africa, which country, he left half an hour before the Special Branch came to arrest him. He subsequently spent part of his working life as a scientist, putting pinker stripes into toothpaste. To escape science, he joined television where he was made a science producer. Some time later when he was having serious doubts as to the value of education he was made a Senior Producer in Education

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