“Higher Than Hope” by Fatima Meer 

Introduction

Racism hurls a cloak of invisibility over its subjects. In South Africa, apartheid was designed to deny the presence of tens of millions of blacks, Asians, and even white adversaries of the Afrikaner regime. An entire nation of nonpeople was created to defend the privilege and dominion of the 'white tribe' (Fatima, pp: 361).

Nelson Mandela, who for more than 27 years was banned, imprisoned, and locked in a kind of Orwellian recollection hole, was possibly the most well known unseen man in the world. And then on a February morning, in one of those uncommon world-historical ...