Apartheid ended in South Africa, but it did not end quietly. Violence marked the drawing down of the strict separation of the races that had existed for decades.
And the violence included the murder of a white American woman by a mob of young black men. The parents of Amy Biehl forgave her killers. But when writer Justine van der Leun investigated the case, the details only got more convoluted... leading to a wholesale reconsideration of crime and punishment, transgression and reconciliation.
Her book We Are Not Such Things gets into the points of the murder and its much larger significance. The author joins us with the tale.
