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For 12 years, Virginia-based politics reporter Eve Fairbanks lived in South Africa, talking to both white and Black South Africans about the apartheid era and, perhaps more crucially, life after it. The result is this engrossing, deeply empathetic narrative account of three South Africans and, implicitly, the nation at large.
At the heart of the book, which came out in July, are the roiling contradictions of life postapartheid. The white South Africans who Fairbanks observes feel like they’ve gotten away with something — and they have. White South Africans stillcompared to their Black counterparts. And yet white South Africans position themselves as a persecuted minority. They self-segregate and fear home invasions and write apocalyptic fiction and worry excessively about the welfare of their pets.
But Black South Africans are also struggling with disillusionment after the end of apartheid. The African National Congress, the party of Mandela, is full of corrupt leaders who are just as willing as their white brethren to exploit the Black citizens living in poverty. Some of the Black South Africans who Fairbanks talks to secretly wonder if they just aren’t capable of ruling themselves.
Fairbanks writes graciously about all the people she interviews, acknowledging all of these contradictions and the complete lack of clear and easy solutions. I do wish she unpacked her own interest in South Africa a bit more. There’s just an inherent amount of hubris in deciding to write a book about a country in general, let alone one you don’t come from and one as deeply divided as South Africa. Did she have any trepidations? Would a Black writer have gotten as much access as Fairbanks did to the Afrikaners she spoke with? Still, the care she took with this book makes it a notable and memorable achievement.
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