In October 1999, in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa, a young man I’ve named Peter Mitchell was shot to death on his father’s farm at about two o’clock on a Monday afternoon. He was twenty-eight years old, a big, chunky guy, square-faced and blond. In his graduation pictures, he towe…
The Defeated
Jonny Steinberg
‘Peter Mitchell died on a frontier, not so much between black and white, or between the landed and the landless, as between the past and the future.’
40 years of Granta

The Silkworms
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Peace Shall Destroy Many
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Blue Sky Days
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Vladimir in Love
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The Transition
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Jonny Steinberg
Jonny Steinberg is the author of several books about South Africa's transition to democracy. His next book, A Man of Good Hope, will be published in January 2015. He teaches African Studies and Criminology at the University of Oxford.
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