The re-issue of Richard Turner’s Eye of the Needle comes at a critical time in South African history, along side the revival of Black Consciousness and a reconsideration of what Tony Morphet famously called the ‘Durban Moment’. Turner was a central figure in the white South African student movement, and a key figure in the radicalization of its critical project. Inspired by events in Paris ’68, he returned to South Africa after acquiring ...
