Book Sex, death, disease, and social change

摘要

While many things changed in South Africa's black communities after the loosening of apartheid control in the early 1990s, perhaps none were more germane to the growing HIV epidemic than the free movement of people and the new forms of socialisation that arose at this time. Back then from my veranda in a peri-urban township outside Durban, I had a front-row view of a changing youth culture.I remember waking one morning to the sound from a tavern that had just opened on a dusty lot along the main road. It was the same lot once used by the South African Defence Force to park its armoured vehicles when the soldiers took a break from their intimidating cruises around the township. Up until then, drinking establishments in the community were commonly makeshift shacks attached to homes and known locally as shebeens.