The Pretoria Conspiracy

by Lily Mabura

The Pretoria Conspiracy was awarded the (Kenyan) National Book Week Literary Award for the Best First Novel in 2001.

The story is set in 1945 South Africa. Colonel Willem Stewart de Veer flies in the face of convention, and segregation, by marrying a coloured woman. His family disown him; but they meet again, this time on opposing sides in the political struggle. Willem Stewart must contend with the head of the de Veer family, Paulus de Veer, and a handful of tenacious supremacists in a tense clash of the personal and the political.

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