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...placid taxi driver called Life, that identity means confinement to a segregated township. There, boredom and despair are as palpable as the omnipresent automobile carcasses and piles of beer cans. Jaiprakash Bhula is an educated Indian haberdasher, contemptuous of racial decrees. His question gnaws at South African policy: If whites really believed they were better, "would it be necessary to create laws guaranteeing social, monetary, and political superiority...
Throughout, Stengel maintains a tone of cool detachment, but his epilogue contains a mordant irony: De la Rey and Bhula carry on, but on the morning of May 21, 1989, Life is stabbed to death, presumably by black men who believe the driver was "too conciliatory to the authorities." The burial occurs on a work day. "Under the state's emergency regulations, funerals like Life's cannot be held on weekends. Only a handful of people made it to the burial...
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