Based on the work of the Truth & Reconciliation Committee in
South Africa—why it was set up and what it could achieve and actually
achieved. The evils of apartheid South Africa (separate housing and
facilities, maltreatment of blacks by white masters, etc) and how things
have changed with the arrival of black majority rule.
The
story is told around the fictional town of Smitrivier, of how Sarah
Bacant, an intelligent lawyer who’d been living in the US for the past
fourteen years, is called back by her mentor Ben Hoffman to assist him
help a black couple Mr/Mrs James Sizela to force an ex-police leader
Pieter Muller to reveal the location of the body of their only son Steve
whom they believed was murdered under his custody. Steve’s friend and
mate during the freedom struggle Alex Mpondo who survived the detention
to become an MP is also called to assist in this. In the course of a T
& R hearing, we are told about the tortures and eventual death of
Steve, and how another policeman Dirk Hendricks buried him at night
behind a farm.
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