Volume 32, Number 17 · November 7, 1985
The Just Cause
By Nadine Gordimer
Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White
by Joseph Lelyveld
Times Books, 389 pp., $18.95
Joseph Lelyveld had been the New York Times man in South Africa for only eleven months when, in 1966, the South African government served him with notice to leave within a week. For the next decade, that government was to bar entry to New York Times correspondents. When Lelyveld boarded the plane he had 'a feeling of lightness, of freedom as a palpable sensation.' This could not have been because he himself had been either one of those straining at the oars in the galley of apartheid, or one giving orders up aloft. If he had borne any weight at all, it was the reputation of a journalist who sought the truth and wrote it, an officially declared enemy of apartheid; on any New York evening he could have been at ease as a self-(critically)-styled 'naive democrat' among those who believe in the 'Western solutions' to apartheid the South African government dismisses as simplistic.
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