![]() ![]() Almost half its residents were unemployed. But Delft turned out to be a bitter place. Several years after the historic election that brought Mandela to power, Maxwele moved from the Eastern Cape to an area outside Cape Town called Delft, where people said there were better schools and more jobs. That implied a promise: the promise of transformation, of the freedom to change your circumstances and be something different from what history had prescribed for your kind. But now the liberation movement had its own planes. On the TV in the village nurse’s house, he had watched tanks manned by angry-eyed white boys in battle gear, rolling into crowds of black protesters. ![]() Power was something Maxwele had only glimpsed at a distance, wielded by South Africa’s apartheid state. The Eastern Cape legend had it that planes, a rare sighting, were flown by influential people, even people to be feared. The sound of the plane transmitted an impression Maxwele never forgot – one of motion and power. ![]()
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