'The Soul of the White Ant', Eugène Marais

19 February 2007

It was a sunny day in Rhodesia when the men came to kill the queen. I was 5 years old, and allowed to watch. The gang wielded pick-heads that sliced deep into the soil, just next to the wall of our house, in the small Midlands town of Gwelo.

'The Soul of the White Ant', Eugène Marais