Madonna of Excelsior * a Short Introduction for

* a Short Introduction for Users Explains the Basic Principles Underlying the Material

Poetic and Indelibly Tragic

Imprisoned

Mahlangeni

Madonna of Excelsior * a Short Introduction forThis Novel is Set in the Free State Town of Excelsior From the 1970S to the Time of Political Liberation in the 1990S. in the 1970S Excelsior Was Notorious for a Series of Across The Colour Bar Sex Scandals Involving White Men Many of Them Pillars of the Conservative Afrikaner Establishment and Black Women, Some of Whom Bore Mixed Race Children As a Result. Mda Roots His Story in This Period and Carries It Through to the Social and Political