Nadine Gordimer’s “July’s People” is once again another searing insight into the heart of South Africa, and proving why she is on of the most respected authors not just in her native South Africa, but the world over too.The book was written in 1981, more than ten years before the end of apartheid. For years, it has been what is called a ‘deteriorating situation’. Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds: the members of the Smales family – liberal whites – are rescued from the terror by their servant, July, who leads them to refuge in his native village. What happens to the Smales’ and to July gives the reader an unflinching look into the terrifying, tacit understandings and misunderstandings between blacks and whites. Apartheid may be over, but the works of people like Gordimer help to emphasise why it should never be allowed to happen again.