'South Africa’s Rule of Violence'

South Africa’s Rule of Violence. Patrick Duncan. Methuen, 7s. 6d.

White supremacy in South Africa has survived as it was built: on violence. This is the thesis of Duncan’s book, illustrated by extracts from the South African press over the last ten years and held loosely together by snatches of analysis. The straight accounts of police assault and the brutality of white farmers, are excellent in their obvious intention—to jolt the British public into their ever-present liberal abhorrence of direct cruelty.