The Backroom Boy BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Environmentalists & Naturalists and practices of

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How do we live in the age of disaster

Dubbed “casino capitalism” by its critics

was written in 1973 at a time of global socio-political change and renewed resistance to the brutality of apartheid rule and the emergence of Black Consciousness in the mid-1960s

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The Backroom Boy BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Environmentalists & Naturalists and practices ofThe Backroom Boy opens dramatically in China, 1962. Andrew Mlangeni is one of a small select group undergoing military training there. The unannounced visitor is Mao Tse Tung or Chairman Mao as he was known, Chairman of the Communist Party of China. Mlangeni was selected as one of the first ever six members who received military training in China before the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe. He seems to have been chosen because he was a dedicated,