210pp., colour illus., paperback, Reprint, Cape Town, (2018) 2018
Former TV and radio news anchor Tracy Going writes about the two-and-a-half-year legal ordeal she endured when, in 1997, she laid a charge of assault against her partner at the time.
"Searing, heartbreaking, triumphant; Brutal Legacy is for everyone who been punched in the face by someone the loved and then stood up again. It's for every mother, sister, brother and for the children who have watched. Every South African should read it." Sisonke Msimang, author of Always Another Country