Melanie Verwoerd

At two important junctures in her life, Melanie Verwoerd was told to keep quiet. But she had promised two men she loved and admired – Nelson Mandela and Gerry Ryan – that she would not be silenced. This book honours her promises. As a Stellenbosch schoolgirl, Melanie met Wilhelm Verwoerd, grandson of the «father of apartheid», HF Verwoerd, and at age twenty she married him. In the turbulent early 1990s, the two young Verwoerds did the unthinkable by joining the recently unbanned African...