Ties that Bind. Shannon Walsh

crapped on it, and whatever, and whatever, and whatever.’

      5 Alan Paton, once a principal of the Diepkloof Reformatory, is most famous as the author of Cry, the Beloved Country (published in 1948).

      6 Sasol was a leading industrial institution at the forefront of coal to oil conversion and an important target, not only guarded by South African units but also regarded as a strategic asset by western security organizations such as NATO.

      7 Sekete and his comrades (Barney Molokoane and Victor Khayiyane) did not run faster than the helicopters, dogs, and bullets of the South African Defence Force, but that operation was the first of the liberation struggle in which MK combatants killed so many of the enemy.

      8 See Dlamini (2014), which engages the mercurial figure of the traitor in the liberation struggle against apartheid.

      9 The book has since been published by Black Ghost Books (Cape Town, 2015).

      10 This reading owes a debt to Charles J. Stivale’s Gilles Deleuze’s ABC: The Folds of Friendship (2008), as well as Martin Dieck and Jens Balzer’s surreal and hilarious bande dessinée (graphic art book) Salut, Deleuze! (Hi, Deleuze), which appeared in Chimurenga 9: Conversations in Luanda and Other Graphic Stories (2006).