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Only, it isn't. Woods' account is better described as a personal travelogue of the 1990s, which, while he visited South Africa 27 times, also took in much of North America, and Britain, where he now resides. To the strains of Chopin, a suitably Romantic leitmotif, he muses constantly on the undisputed natural beauty of the country, as he drives across it with wife Wendy, and feasts off its produce. Continually recognised from the film, wearying for both Woods and the reader, he visits the Security Police offices (they no longer have his file), and Biko's grave (overgrown), and various friends and acquaintances; at the first democratic elections in 1994, he is waved to the front of the registration queue, ditto the voting queue, given free taxi rides, yet embarrassingly fails to see the irony. His considerations of sport, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and Winnie Mandela are cursory, and while one can't take away the considerable cohesive strides the country has made, crime is rampant, AIDS is at epidemic proportions, and a minority of Afrikaners are still hell-bent on turning the country into a monochromatic Rambo Nation. Woods' tireless efforts entitle him to no small pleasure at a present, and future, he despaired of seeing, but this unconvincing montage does a brave, dignified figure too little credit, as man or journalist. --David Vincent
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