The Vanishing Nation (ePub)

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 and common crime that leaves people in anguish. He contemplates the hazy future being mapped out for South Africans whether they are new-born babies or the elderly.
Thami Nodwele began writing books in his final-year theology studies. His lecturer Hank Pott encouraged him to pursue his craft after reading some of his assignments and challenged him to complete his debut manuscript within three months.
Consequently, Nodwele wrote the harrowing story about a young boy who had been molested and murmured by his football coach after its exposure in the news. The child's mother had been paying the coach to train her son and in return, he had abused and eventually murdered him.
Nodwele was deeply affected by that event and used his anger and frustration to ensure a death, committed at the hands of an evil, selfish man meant to protect a child, was not in vain. He used words to express the pain a mother feels in losing her son as well as the fear the child experienced while being molested yet unable to speak out.
Also by Thami Nodwele:
I was Compromised
About Yesterday
SS MENDI Sank (to be published soon)