Ubuntu: A Novel

Ubuntu's plot and characters illuminate better than any history book or newspaper headline the corrupting evil of apartheid, the atrocities committed by ruthless death squads in its defense, and the heroism of many of its opponents, black and white. A tour-de-force adventure and love story that will leave you breathless with its many twists, Ubuntu combines fact and fiction in a way that informs and inspires as it entertains with page-turning suspense. Ubuntu is a powerful and unforgettable saga of divided loyalties, deadly treachery, forbidden love, unspeakable horrors, and the heroic courage of individual South Africans who dare to reach across a deep racial divide to save their country's soul by bringing to justice one of the apartheid era's most ruthless killers. Mathabane dedicated this book to his father, "who fronted life without flinching -- in the true spirit of Venda warriors."