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When thirteen year old Darryl Malgas and his best friend, Leon Bull, discover a body hanging from its neck under the old bridge, they know everything is about to change. The body has been mutilated and the coloured people of Noordgesig speculate wildly that the killing was motivated by someone’s desire to make muti. Over the days and weeks that follow, we get to know this community on the edge of Soweto through their joys and sorrows, their laughter and the pain of a violence that lurks just beyond the surface of things. We join Darryl and Leon as they grow up to the realities of the thousands of ways in which apartheid has poisoned the everyday lives of ordinary people, searing all through its despicable racial laws.
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