![]() ![]() At each turn we examine a nation’s broken promises in often excoriating and uncomfortable detail. ![]() We cycle through chapters named after Swart family members, and through eras of South Africa’s emergence from Apartheid – Botha, through Mandela, through Mbeki, to Zuma. This is a book that is about Salome, and yet not about her at all. ![]() Old promises are broken whilst new ones are made, and the word of a dying woman is blown away on the winds of change. South Africa, though, is a country coming to terms with Apartheid. Years pass, and Rachael’s spoken promise rests with one family member after another. As Salome tends to a dying Rachael, the white matriarch of the family, she is promised her own house and plot of land on the Swart farm. A Black South African, she has seen to the needs of Rachael, her husband Manie, and raised the couple’s three children – Anton, Astrid, and Amor. Salome has served the Swart family for years. ![]()
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