Imraan coovadia biography of martin

  • In his story Career Move (in the collection Heavy Water), Martin South African author Imraan Coovadia was born in 1970.
  • First novel by a South African–born Indian now in the US: a would-be witty comedy of love and manners chronicling a courtship and marriage inspired by the.
  • Imraan Coovadia's new book, 'Poisoners: On South Africa's Toxic Past', looks inside Rhodesia and apartheid SA's love for death and poison.

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    Imraan Coovadia, in his new book, The Poisoners: On South Africa’s Toxic Past, published by Umuzi Press, takes a look inside how the Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa used poison against opponents. Here, we publish an extract from the book, detailing some of the poisoning campaigns used against freedom fighters and black citizens in Zimbabwe.

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    Starting in 1977, doctors in Rhodesia’s main cities, Salisbury in the north and Bulawayo in the south, noted a steep rise in poisonings. Parathion was identified as the culprit. Many victims were women and children.

    An unusual aspect of the cases was that many patients relapsed on discharge. A study of one hundred and five patients at Harari Hospital found that eighty-nine survived. Thirteen of them returned with new symptoms. Two patients were admitted three times.

    Investigators tested their clothing and discovered that the fabric was saturated with parathion.

    The victims had been poisoned again as soon as they dressed to leave the hospital, and then a third time in cases that demonstrated the virulence of the poison. A foreign physician, RO Laing, traced the exposure of one afflicted family to a salesman who had wrapped their purchases in a piece of contaminated cloth.

    Eileen MacIntosh at the University of Rho

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    Our Assessment:

    B+ : an appealing, creative vision, rather nicely done

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    Sunday Times.5/8/2012Karl Van Wyk


      From the Reviews:
    • "Coovadia attempts to prove this point in ways that are complex without ever feeling heavy, and is proficient in his handling of these themes while linking them to an entertaining plot. His skill is especially evident in the novel's final chapter in which many of the narrative strands are elegantly tied together. This is a fun and insightful ride" - Karl Van Wyk, Sunday Times

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