What does J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace suggest about contemporary South Africa? J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace tells the story of David Lurie, a twice-divorced professor of Romantic Poetry in late middle-age. Teaching at the Cape Technical University in post-apartheid South Africa, Lurie lives an undemanding, passionless and ultimately unsatisfactory life. He teaches his classes without protest, but without pleasure or fulfilment. He is neither particularly happy nor unhappy; he exists within self-imposed parameters broken only by …showed first 75 words of 1635 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1635 total…another. However there are other possibilities to achieving stability and peace. Again Robert Guest summarises: 'South Africa has a better shot at creating a genuinely entrepreneurial black business class than most African countries. The roads in South Africa are better, the airlines run on time, and all the support services that businesses need are in place, more or less. What is missing is a wider understanding that wealth is something that you have to create."