Memory is the weapon

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Don Mattera sets his boyhood experiences against the background of Sophiatown, and offers a compelling account of how a multicultural and cosmopolitan society was transformed and destroyed by apartheid. Sophiatown was at the heart Don Mattera sets his boyhood experiences against the background of Sophiatown, and offers a compelling account of how a multicultural and cosmopolitan society was transformed and destroyed by apartheid. Sophiatown was at the heart of black South African culture in the 1950s. Don Mattera sets his boyhood experiences against the background of Sophiatown, and offers a compelling account of how a multicultural and cosmopolitan society was transformed and destroyed by apartheid. Sophiatown was at the heart of black South African culture in the 1950s. of black South African culture in the 1950s.