LifeBlood EarthBlood Author:Lawrence Bransby Without land in rural South Africa, a man is nothing. Black farm labourers are becoming angry, impatient for land, while white farmers barricade themselves behind walls and electrified fences, with the spectre of Zimbabwe, illegal farm occupations and murder an ever-present threat.Revealed mainly through the eyes of the children, whose parents f... more »ight for ownership of land, Life-Blood - Earth-Blood is the story of confrontations that take place in one small, dusty corner of South Africa between two white families and their black workers. In a sensitive, verbally brilliant novel, where the smell of dust and blood rise from the pages as you read, frustration and bitterness between black and white, older and younger generations reach explosive heights and people start to die?« less