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“Mine Boy” by Peter Abrahams is a 1946 novel centered on the prevailing social and racial discriminations that occurred in a post-independence South Africa which had begun introducing a new Apartheid policy which brought about unfavorable and discriminatory treatments towards the...

Peter Abraham’s “Mine Boy” is a bold fusion of marxism, racial, and colour segregation, set against the backdrop of the Apartheid South Africa. Written in 1946, the era when the situation in South Africa is deplorable, as racial segregation dominates the...