Author David Africa on The Jazz Standard with Brenda Sisane
Loading player...
We’re joined by David Africa, author of Lives On The Line, to unpack a covert chapter of South African history, the realities of urban terrorism, and what it means to live - and listen - inside the tension between order, survival, and conscience.
Lives On The Line is not the story of heroism as performance; it is the story of a different kind of radicalism rooted in discipline, anonymity, and an uncomfortable kind of patriotism. Ours is not to mythologise the work, but to ask what it means to love Black people enough to protect them quietly, to improvise responsibly, and to choose life over noise.
Lives On The Line is not the story of heroism as performance; it is the story of a different kind of radicalism rooted in discipline, anonymity, and an uncomfortable kind of patriotism. Ours is not to mythologise the work, but to ask what it means to love Black people enough to protect them quietly, to improvise responsibly, and to choose life over noise.
