The Afrikaners had voted the National Party in. Racial segregation belonged to people like Captain Pretorius and his sons. A detective didn't have to adhere to the new laws. Murder didn't have a color.

True Boers didn't need good taste; they had God on their side.

Under the new race laws, everything was black or white. Gray had ceased to exist.

There was enough direct evidence in the churchyard to refute the idea that blood mixing was unnatural. Plenty of people managed to do it just fine.

Ordinary, sad, and confused human need lifted the hands of killers.