TRUTH & CONCILIATION, a historical novel

331pp., paperback, Naledi, Gansbaai, 2025

ISBN: 9781067234461

Novel set in Cape Town in 1996 during South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings.

An Afrikaner doctor, Pieter Marais, and a Xhosa police detective, Thembisa Dlamini, both of whom have lost loved ones, seek the truth about a deadly crime committed during the apartheid years.

Dr. Berend Mets grew up in South Africa and is currently Professor of Anaesthesiology at Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is the author of Waking Up Safe? An anaesthesiologist's record and Leadership in Anaesthesia: Five pioneers of the deadly quest for surgical insensibility. Truth & Conciliation is a sequel to his novel, Immorality Act.