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...TRAITOR'S HEART by Rian Malan; Atlantic Monthly; 349 pages...
...Traitor's Heart, Rian Malan, a young white South African journalist, has one major subject: Rian Malan. His intense and angry memoir offers a series of South African impressions: the author as exiled hippie in America; the author as pariah in his native land; blacks under fire, with a prominent & figure of the author...
...most personal of the books, it is in some ways the most powerful. But Malan's self-absorption obscures his extraordinary credentials. He is a relative of Daniel F. Malan, one of the architects of apartheid. Rian becomes the righteous recorder of black rage in the "charnel house" of Soweto, the largest black township created by that apartheid. Alas, the conflict of genealogy and emotion tends to produce more heat than light. In a typical episode, Malan recalls a psychopath who murdered whites with a hammer; Simon Mpungose's story "seemed to unfold like the story of a saint, deeply...
Blumenthal left Zaïre in 1979. But he continued his investigations in Western Europe, obtaining from former Zaïrian Prime Minister Nguza Karl-I-Bond, now living in exile, the estimate that Mobutu's private fortune exceeds $4 billion. Most of it was said to be held in Swiss bank accounts, a point that may explain why the Swiss have been receiving fairly regular payments on loans owed them...