They shot at his mother for shouting, “Power to the people.” The apartheid government. The bullet crashed through the window and shattered the wardrobe in their living room.
During that period, men like his father, Zulu men, unaccustomed to being subservient, lived under the thumb of other men. As a result, there were copious amounts of drinking and violence as coping mechanisms, and men like his father brought back the violence into their homes.
