Coming To Terms South Africa's Search For Truth

Coming to Terms is a groundbreaking consideration of a country's attempts to put a troubled history behind it and reach a new stage of development. Martin Meredith takes an unprecedented look into the key cases presented to the commission - both those involving well-known figures such as Stephen Biko and Winnie Mandela, and those that deal with the routine violence and torture that shaped the lives of average South Africans. In vivid narrative and dramatic testimony he brings to life many stories of individuals - heroes, villains, and those who fell uneasily into the grey area in between - as well as the larger story of a country attempting to move beyond a legacy of violence.