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"[N]ovel set in the Midlands of KwaZulu-Natal. ... [T]his is a story about the state of a nation and a deep meditation on memory, ageing, meaning, family, love and loss."--Back cover.

• A story of what happened in the Natal Midlands
• Events and incidents
• Damage and destruction
• Death
• Analysing the conflict
• The interpreters
• Causes
• Features of an unofficial war
• Senzani na? In whose interests?
• Monitoring and monitoring methodology.

Provides a seminal account of the violent civil conflict that broke out around the city of Pietermaritzburg in 1987 and what ensued over the next three years. Aitchison and his colleagues, based at the Centre for Adult Education, documented and dissected the ebb and flow and the changing circumstances of this not-so-low intensity civil war in the region. They collected, computerised, and categorised literally thousands of instances of eyewitness or documentary evidence, and then applied an innovative synthesis of qualitative and quantitative approaches that uncovered the patterns and intimated the underlying causes.