Gillian Slovo

Gillian Slovo, born in South Africa, lived in England from the age of 12, and is the author of an acclaimed family memoir Every Secret Thing (1997). Her novel Red Dust is an account of the Truth Commission.

Making history: South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Can societys need for healing override the search for justice? The apartheid system that murdered Gillian Slovos mother faced its crimes not in a courtroom, but in a

By Gillian Slovo

/ 5 Dec 2002