common. That’s where people
would hold someone down and put
a rubber tire over his torso, pinning
his arms. Then they’d douse him
with petrol and set him on fire and
burn him alive. The ANC did it to
Inkatha. Inkatha did it to the ANC. I
saw one of those charred bodies on
the side of the road one day on my
way to school. In the evenings my
mom and I would turn on our little
black-and-white TV and watch the
news. A dozen people killed. Fifty
people killed. A hundred people
killed.
Eden Park sat not far from the
sprawling townships of the East