by Zoe Wicomb
Voortrekker. Boer pioneer who took part in the Great Trek from the Cape Colony in 1835.
Wakker. Literally, awake. Lively or sharp.
Windbroek. Literally, wind trousers; lacking full buttocks. Man without courage or nerve.
Yirrer. Blasphemous expression.
ACRONYMS
ANC. African National Congress.
IDB. Illicit Diamond Buying.
MK. Umkhonto we sizwe—in Nguni, literally, spear of the nation. Secret military wing of the ANC.
Iscor. Iron and Steel Corporation.
PAC. Pan African Congress. Rival resistance movement to the ANC.
UDF. United Democratic Front. Popular resistance movement of the 1980s.
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