Fifty years ago. 1972. A very di?erent South Africa, in a number of fundamental ways. Rick Turner, a political philosopher, publishes The Eye of the Needle: Essays on Participatory Democracy. He was a young author, in his early 30s, recently arrived in Durban. The book was an engagement with the place and times in which he found himself. At the book’s heart is a method for being an agent of change.

SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORICAL JOURNAL, Gerhard Maré