Luke’s Reviews > Long Walk to Freedom > Status Update

Not surprised that protest via refusing to keep prison areas "presentable" exacerbated the authorities more than did hunger strikes. Without a solid line of communication between the strike and the public view, starving oneself to death just makes you easier to clean up.

[N]o one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails.

Very interesting to see how the historically judicial treatment of Nazism impacted anti-apartheid legal structures.

Laws stripping people of their rights were inevitably described as laws restoring those rights.

...[M]iners were normally housed according to tribe. The mining companies preferred such segregation because it prevented different ethnic groups from uniting around a common grievance and it reinforced the power of the chiefs. The separation often resulted in factional fights between different ethnic groups and clans, which the companies did not effectively discourage.

Don't like starting a minorly massive reading project without having completely wrapped up the prior one, but considering the timing, it can't be helped.