How is gordimer's inclusion of the description of the miners also an explanation of why people are afraid I'm south african society?

It was distributed in 1989, in the melting away years of the politically-sanctioned racial segregation in South Africa. The politically-sanctioned racial segregation was an arrangement of racial isolation in South Africa which kept going from 1948 to 1994. Amid this time, a white minority controlled and persecuted the nation of a dark greater part. In these winding down years, wrongdoing and dissents were normal.