From
the early 1980s to the mid 1990s more than 12 000 people die in virtually
unchecked political violence between the UDF and the Inkatha Freedom Party
in KwaZulu/Natal. Many thousands more were injured, rendered homeless or
cast adrift as refugees. Conflict in the region left a trail of devastation,
marked by shattered windows and the blackened ruins of empty houses. It
unleashed a savagery and a thirst for revenge which will not be easily be
countered. It made parts of the province, in the words of the late Chris
Hani, ‘like a wasteland, where people move around like dead souls.’
This book attempts to explain the horror of this
undeclared war.
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