The road from East London to Hogsback wound inland from the coast in a north-westerly direction, through the nearby town of King Williams Town, past the tiny villages of Keiskammahoek and Middledrift, and then up towards the Amatola Mountains and the Tyumie Valley.  Between King William’s Town and Alice, hundreds of rural Xhosa villages lined the road on either side, thousands of mud huts interspersed with more modern brick houses sporting satellite TV dishes and up-market cars in the driveways.  This was a true picture of the new South Africa - an indication of both the modernization and reluctant cultural roots which afflicted so many of the younger generation since the banishment of Apartheid in 1994.  Many of these once exclusively rural villagers now worked and lived in the bigger towns and cities around t...

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