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.

Ongoing civil wars western roman empire finally collapsed476 c.e. romulus, the last of theroman  emperors in  the west, was overthrown by the germanic leader odoacer, who became the first barbarian to rule in rome. the order that the  roman empire  had brought towestern  europe for 1000 years was no more.