Getting together, like it or (mainly) not

摘要

Days before South Africa's general election 18 months ago, the white rightwingers of this languid Afrikaner farming town, in the former Boer republic of the Orange Free State, built gun-towers and encircled them with razor wire to block the road between their white town and the adjacent black township of Rammulotsi. It was a last defiant stand against the approach of democracy, and of black voters into the white town. It failed, and next week, on November 1st, the game is finally up.