Bryan Rostron, ‘Weight of hope adds to burden’, December 12, 2003, Volume 67, Issue 46, p. 15

Opinion piece on South African politics and the ‘new burden’ of ‘the political projection of being the “rainbow nation” that achieved “miracle revolution”’. Article largely focused on South African politics, and on the work of Jay Naidoo, who was Nelson Mandela’s Minister of Reconstruction, and the telling of country’s history, refers to The Fire Next Time, in the final paragraph Rostron writes that: ‘For them [white South Africans] there has truly been a “miracle revolution”. However, when I contemplate such a “miracle” I also sometimes think of James Baldwin’s great essay The Fire Next Time.