On 22 March 2002, Beverley van Schoor was brutally murdered by an assassin hired by her 22-year-old daughter, Sabrina. Is it coincidence that Sabrina is the daughter of Louis van Schoor, the most notorious mass murderer of the apartheid era? And was it by chance that the actions of both father and daughter were motivated by racism? Are there perhaps deeper issues involved? Were Sabrina and Louis van Schoor's murders the result of prejudices prevailing in their country? During the course of her penetrating investigation into why the Van Schoors did what they did, Heidi Holland finds herself asking the question: Where does racism reside now that the language to signpost it has changed?
Heidi Holland was a journalist and author for over thirty years. As a freelance journalist, she wrote for a wide range of international publications, including the London Sunday Times, International Herald Tribune and The Guardian. Other projects included research for leading British television documentaries. She published African Magic with Penguin Books in 2001 and co-edited From Jo’burg to Jozi in 2002. 2006 saw the release of The Colour of Murder, a book about one of South Africa’s worst mass murderers, Louis van Schoor, and in 2008 Penguin published Dinner with Mugabe, a penetrating, timely portrait of Zimbabwe’s infamous ruler. Heidi’s final book 100 Years of Struggle was published in 2012. http://www.dinnerwithmugabe.com
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