Truth & Conciliation
Truth & Conciliation is set in Cape Town in 1996 during the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings where a Xhosa police detective, Thembisa Dlamini, and an Afrikaans doctor, Pieter Marais, begin a tenuous relationship.
Both have suffered the loss of loved ones and been scarred by South African violence.
Will the truth about a deadly crime committed during the apartheid era bring them together, or split them apart?
Brutal yet tender, Truth & Conciliation is a searing account of the impact that racism had on South African life, and poses the question whether telling the truth will set you free.
Published: 20 January 2025
Dr David Wilkinson, Laureate of the Wood Library Museum & Past President of the History of Anaesthesia Society. London, U.K.