Ruth Soroson - Writer

During the Apartheid Era I was working in a hospital where political prisoners were continually being brought for various treatments.
I learned to respect and admire them for their unyielding dedication to the ANC cause, their inspiration and their kindness and sense of humor even under the most severe conditions.
Many of these prisoners were highly intellectual and spent a lot of time in prison studying and teaching and continuing with their education; so that at one stage their part of the prison resembled a school or even a university.
This book is written just to give a ‘taste’ of that time. I have not used ‘real’ people, though I have tried to make them as ‘real’ as possible.
What I have tried to portray is the confusion of the white man at this time. The situations are also not ‘real’ but very ‘real’ in another sense.
I wrote this novel after the Apartheid Era had ended, when the New South Africa was beginning to take shape, achieving things beyond all expectations.
I dedicate this book to all who went through indescribable suffering but who never lost their self respect and the ultimate respect for others.