Margie Orford on the Marikana Effect

From http://bookslive.co.za/tag/Times-LIVE/feed/ » Times Live Mon Sep 23 2013, 06:22:42

  By Margie Orford for The Sunday Times Marikana changed the rules for South African crime fiction, says Margie Orford When I was half way through writing my fifth novel, Water Music, I watched those first, unfiltered YouTube clips of the Marikana massacre. Striking miners armed with kieries and pangas were mown down by a thin, blue line of panicky ...

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