In his autobiographical book The Vanishing Nation, Thami Nodwele recounts his story as a black child growing up in apartheid South Africa and his life amid the post-apartheid challenges. He recognises that since the country's shift to democracy in 1994, life is different, but also increasingly harder as crime and unemployment have escalated.There is a sense of living in a hopelessness society, filled with empty promises and controlled by crime – in government, the corporate sector a...