The South African government insists that the crackdown ... for dealing with social and economic crises to come. Heart of darkness is a phrase that once evoked wild frontiers and colonial cruelty.

Firchow 39). Indeed, the English utterances of the natives in Heart of Darkness seem to grow in significance when one considers them in the light of Conrad's employment of contrast. Before exploring ...

THE Marikana massacre was considered to be the most lethal use of force by South African security forces since the 1976 Soweto riots: 34 men shot dead by SAPS members when they opened fire on a group ...

In Joseph Conrad’s novella set in colonial Africa at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries ... We live, as we dream – alone. . . . Heart of Darkness has the form of a relation – it begins with ...