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Victims of Injustice: When Apartheid and Bush Laws Caused Injustice to Both Sides
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ISBN13: 9781918653335
Publisher: Veloxis Publishing
Pages: 342
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.85 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What happens when a life is shaped by secrets, prejudice, loyalty, and the injustices of history?
Set against the turbulent backdrop of apartheid-era South Africa, Victims of Injustice follows Paul Verster through a life marked by family secrets, forbidden relationships, political conflict, love, loss, and the consequences of decisions made by generations before him.
Abandoned as a young child, Paul grows up surrounded by the Verster family, never fully understanding where he came from or why certain truths have been kept from him. As he grows older, questions about his identity and his past eventually lead him on a journey to England, where he searches for the mother he has not seen for decades.
What he discovers is far more complicated than he expected.
His journey brings him face to face with the painful divisions of apartheid, the tensions between race and privilege, and the personal consequences of a society built on laws that affected the lives of both the oppressed and those who lived within the system.
As Paul builds a life of his own, his path takes him from family and romance to military service and the dangerous realities of the Angolan Bush War. When a humanitarian mission turns into a fight for survival, Paul finds himself caught in circumstances where courage, loyalty and justice are tested to their limits.
Spanning generations and continents, Victims of Injustice is a story of family, identity, love, war, political conflict and the search for truth-while exploring how the injustices of one era can continue to shape the lives of those who come after it.
A compelling historical novel inspired by real events, where personal lives collide with the turbulent history of South Africa.
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