SHADOWBOXING is the riveting and personal account  of the author's years growing up under Apartheid. Told from the unique persepective of a child who, from an early age, begins to recognize the injustices of his world and the systematic and institutionalized racism and oppression of South Africa. Resistance and rebellion, nurtured in part by an innate sense of fairness gleaned from the heroic stories he read in comic books, grew in respone to the expansion and codification of Apartheid. His love of the Xhosa woman who cared for and guided him awoke a clarity of vision that led to his fighting alongside all those who risked their lives for liberation.